CFPB Focuses on Innovation; Creates New Office and Hints at Future Rulemaking

On May 24, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it is opening a new office called the Office of Competition and Innovation in order to spur innovation in financial services through competition. This new office will replace the Office of Innovation which primarily processed company and product-specific applications for No-Action Letters and Sandboxes.

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CFPB Launches New System to Promote Consistency Among Enforcers

On May 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) announced that it will launch a new initiative to provide guidance to other agencies with consumer financial protection responsibilities on how the CFPB intends to enforce “Federal consumer financial law.” 12 U.S.C § 5481(14).

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NCLC Tells FCC “Callers Can Easily Avoid Making Calls to Telephone Numbers That Have Been Reassigned….”–But is it That Simple?

In response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent letter to the FCC seeking clarity on whether the TCPA applies to texts it would like to make to alert Americans of certain medical benefits, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)–an organization that nominally represents consumers, but really seems to represent the interests of the plaintiff’s bar–has filed a comment.

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Senate Banking Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Overdraft Fees and Their Effects on Working Families

On May 4, 2022, the Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection held a hearing entitled “Examining Overdraft Fees and Their Effects on Working Families.”  A recording of the hearing is available here.

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BNPL is Primed for Growth

Despite Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) info flooding the newswires, it holds only a small percentage of the payments landscape with 9% of global e-commerce transactions in 2021 (Juniper Research). However, it is growing fast both in the US and globally.

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Fifth State in the Union Becomes Fifth State to Enact Data Privacy Legislation

On May 10, Gov. Ned Lamont signed into law Substitute Senate Bill 6 (Public Act 22-15), Connecticut’s version of comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation.  This makes Connecticut the fifth state to enact such legislation, following California, Virginia, Colorado, and Utah.  The Act will go into effect July 1, 2023.

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