Links in “Agencies”
- FTC Strong Testimony on Debt Collection
FTC testimony highlights cases brought and pending against debt collectors. [7/18]
- Best Practices on Debt Collection
OCC provides strong guidance on Debt Collection including 8 Best Practices elements. Emphasis remains on Controls, Oversight, Monitoring and, if needed, Look-back reviews. [7/18]
- CFPB Releases List of Rural and Underserved Counties for 2014
Certain creditors making mortgage loans in qualifying counties are granted exemptions from various rules; the list is updated annually. [7/17]
- Cordray’s Confirmation Strengthens CFPB
Senate confirms Cordray 66-34, removing cloud of uncertainty hanging over the agency and lingering doubts about the agency's ability to write rules. [7/17]
- FEMA Promotes Protection
FEMA Promotes Flood Awareness with useful links and guides. [7/16]
- Shake-up at FinCEN: Creation of Enforcement Division
FinCEN employees now organized by into four divisions: Intelligence Division, Policy Division; Liaison Division; and Enforcement Division. [7/16]
- What New Mortgage Rule Exemptions Tell Us about CFPB
CFPB's latest round of exemptions is yet another astounding signal that this new Bureau is not only seeking feedback, but using that feedback to finalize the rules, and then, before those rules are even effective, using additional industry feedback to make common-sense adjustments. [7/16]
- New NCUA Deputy Director for Office of Consumer Protection
20+ Year NCUA Veteran Biliouris takes key role in Consumer Protection Division. [7/16]
- FFIEC 2013 Geocoder Now Available
2013 geocoder now running, which includes updates for 2014 HMDA. [7/15]
- CFPB’s New Weapon: The Civil Investigative Demand
CID is an administrative subpoena for documents, testimony, and answers to written questions with a short timetable; can be issued to any institution â even those with less than $10 billion in assets which are not under its primary supervisory authority. [7/15]
