Ian Eppler  //  4/16/17  //  Topic Update


President Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not come to fruition given the agency’s popularity, speculates Deepak Gupta and Jonathan Taylor on Take Care.

DOJ has recently filed a brief contradicting its constitutional arguments against the CFPB, explain Deepak Gupta and Jon Taylor on Take Care.

Many states have come to the defense of the CFPB's pre-paid account rule (CFPB Monitor).

Consumer groups and congressional Democrats will likely put up a fight over the rollback of net-neutrality rules, reports the Wall Street Journal.


Updates | The Week of January 22, 2018

1/28/18  //  Daily Update

In a memo to CFPB staff, acting director Mick Mulvaney expressed plans to move away from his predecessor's "good guys" fighting "bad guys," approach to one in which the agency conducts enforcement with "humility and prudence." The Bloomberg Editorial Board argued that the CFPB's plan to reconsider payday lending rules is misguided.

Updates | The Week of January 15, 2018

1/14/18  //  Daily Update

The CFPB released its sixth annual report to Congress on college credit card agreements, which departs from past reports in taking schools to task for failing to meet their obligation under the CARD Act to publicly disclose their college credit card marketing agreements.

Update | The Week of November 27, 2017

12/4/17  //  Daily Update

A legal battle over who is the rightful acting director of the CFPB prompted widespread debate.

Jeffrey Stein

Columbia Law School