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August

6
2024

FTC Action Leads to Permanent Bans for Scammers Behind Sprawling Credit Repair Pyramid Scheme

As a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, the owners and operators of a sprawling credit repair operation known as Financial Education Services (FES) will end the practices that the FTC alleged created a pyramid scheme and also violated the Credit Repair Organizations Act.  In addition, the proposed court orders include substantial monetary penalties.

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August

6
2024
Industry News

FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued its list of state nonmember banks recently evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).  The list covers evaluation ratings that the FDIC assigned to institutions in May 2024.

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August

6
2024
Trends

WebRecon June 2024 Stats: Everything Down in June, Yet Up YTD

Quick analysis: Everything Down in June, Yet Up YTD

Not sure we’ve seen this one before! in June, every consumer complaint statute we track was down (TCPA -7.4%, FDCPA -32.1%, FCRA -9.2%), yet every one of them was still up year to date (TCPA +8.6%, FDCPA +15.4%, FCRA +21.1%).

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August

5
2024
Compliance

FDIC Urges Financial Institutions to Complete Voluntary Diversity Self-Assessments

The FDIC is urging financial institutions it supervises to voluntarily submit self-assessments of their diversity policies and practices to the agency by Oct. 31, 2024.

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August

5
2024
Industry News

CFPB Joins Federal Regulators to Propose Rule to Standardize Data Submitted to Federal Financial Agencies

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today joined several other federal financial regulatory agencies in announcing a proposed rule to establish data standards for certain information collections submitted to financial regulatory agencies. The proposal would promote interoperability of financial regulatory data across the agencies through the establishment of data standards for identifiers of legal entities and other common identifiers.

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