On October 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they reached a settlement with Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation (Fairway). This settlement addresses allegations of redlining in majority-Black neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama.
The CFPB has banned private dispute resolution platform Ejudicate from arbitrating disputes about consumer financial products, saying that the company had misled student borrowers about the company’s neutrality and initiated sham arbitration proceedings.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released enforcement actions taken against national banks and federal savings associations (banks), and individuals currently and formerly affiliated with banks the OCC supervises.
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued student lender Climb Credit, and its largest shareholder 1/0 (“one zero”), for inducing students to take out loans by misrepresenting the quality of the training programs at their partner schools and making false claims about graduates’ hiring rates and salaries.
A data breach affecting debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) has affected telecom giant Comcast Cable Communications. FBCS says threat actors breached its network between February 14 and February 26, 2024, stole personal, account, and government-issued information, and deployed ransomware.