Also, Georgia Power has pledged $75 million for racial-equity programs in the state, and the McKnight Foundation will award $1 million in unsolicited grants to social-justice groups in Minnesota in memory of George Floyd.
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The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) has filed its
combined opposition to the motions of the CFPB and the Consumer Financial Services Association (CFSA) to dismiss NALCAB’s lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s rescission of the “ability-to-repay” (ATR) or “mandatory underwriting provisions” in its 2017 final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (2017 Rule). The lawsuit seeks to overturn the CFPB’s July 2020 final rule (2020 Rule) that eliminated the ATR provisions but left in place the 2017 Rule’s payments provisions. The CFSA intervened in the lawsuit.
When the CFPB filed its
motion to dismiss, Acting CFPB Director Dave Uejio made clear that the motion was not intended to indicate that the “new CFPB” supports the 2020 Rule. He explained
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With the change of administration in Washington, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB” or “Bureau”) is widely expected to assume a posture of aggressive enforcement of consumer protection laws. One area that we anticipate will receive heightened scrutiny is payday lending, a form of lending that typically involves small, short-term loans at high interest rates. Under new leadership, the CFPB may seek to require that payday lenders assess a borrower’s ability to pay. And even absent such a requirement, the CFPB may pursue enforcement actions against lenders for lending that the CFPB considers “predatory” and/or “unfair,” and therefore putatively in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (“CFPA”).