Kristie Kully will participate as a speaker in the National Business Institute Seminar: What the CFPB and FTC Need You to Know—RESPA/TILA, FDCPA, and More, May 14–15, 2014. Kristie will be speaking at the following sessions: “Loan Estimates Under the New Rules,” “Closing Disclosures—Changes You Need to Know,” and “Loan Originator Compensation: What You Need to Know—NOW.”
Please join us for the third in a series of webinars focusing on the intersection of social medial, law, and business. This program is targeted to legal counsel or marketing personnel in businesses that want to engage consumers through social media platforms. It will focus on the regulatory considerations surrounding social media, and advertising and marketing laws, with an emphasis on FTC issues.
By: Melanie Brody, Anjali Garg
On April 28, the CFPB issued its third Fair Lending Report, highlighting fair lending developments from calendar year 2014. The CFPB reports that in 2014, its fair lending supervisory and public enforcement actions resulted in $224 million in remediation to approximately 303,000 consumers. The CFPB referred 15 matters to the Department of Justice in the areas of mortgage lending, auto finance, unsecured consumer lending and credit cards, and student lending. DOJ declined to open an independent investigation in five of those matters.
By: Andrew C. Glass, Robert W. Sparkes, Roger L. Smerage
In the wake of the Great Recession, numerous federal government actors have sought to limit, and in some cases, eliminate, the inclusion of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in consumer financial services contracts. For instance, in 2010, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), Congress amended the federal Truth-in-Lending Act to prohibit the use of pre-dispute arbitration provisions in residential mortgage contracts and home-equity line-of-credit agreements. See 15 U.S.C. § 1639c(e)(1). Now, acting pursuant to a mandate provided by the Dodd-Frank Act, see 12 U.S.C. § 5518(a), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has joined the hunt. On March 9, 2015, the CFPB issued a report to Congress that appears to put the use of such agreements in all consumer financial services agreements – including credit card, checking account, and payday loan agreements – in the agency’s cross-hairs.
By: Andrew C. Glass, Olivia Kelman
The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari to decide whether the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) excludes loan guarantors from the definition of “applicants” entitled to bring suit under the Act. See Hawkins v. Community Bank of Raymore, No. 14-520 (U.S. Mar. 2, 2015). Specifically, the Court will decide whether the Federal Reserve Board exceeded its authority in its 2003 amendment to Regulation B, the regulation implementing ECOA, to purportedly bring guarantors within the ambit of ECOA’s protection. The Court’s decision may have far-reaching implications for lenders extending credit guaranteed by a non-borrower.
4 March 2015
8:30 a.m. ET
Congressional Meet & Greet
K&L Gates is pleased to invite you to our March 4th meet and greet breakfast with Congressman French Hill (R-AR-2).
Congressman Hill was elected in November 2014 to represent Arkansas’s 2nd Congressional District. The 2nd District includes White County, Van Buren County, Conway County, Perry County, Saline County, Faulkner County, and Pulaski County.
By: Holly Spencer Bunting, Phillip L. Schulman
The love affair continues between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and enforcement under Section 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”). On February 10, 2015, the CFPB announced a consent order with NewDay Financial, LLC (“NewDay” or the “Company”) involving alleged violations of the referral fee prohibitions under Section 8 of RESPA and deceptive marketing practices. Specifically, the CFPB alleges that NewDay paid “lead generation” fees to an unnamed veterans’ organization and a third-party company for the endorsement of the Company and referral of the organization’s veteran members to NewDay for mortgage financing. While the Company neither admitted nor denied the CFPB’s findings, the CFPB assessed a $2 million civil money penalty under the consent order. The facts as described in the consent order do not involve a typical marketing services agreement or lead generation agreement, but the consent order makes clear that endorsements of a company expressed through direct mail and email advertisements are considered to be referrals by the CFPB.
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Please join us for the first in a series of webinars focusing on the intersection of social media, law, and business. This program will include an in-depth discussion on issues companies face when removing unlawful content from social media sites.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. EST
Program will be 60 minutes followed by time for Q&A
The Consumer Financial Services Group is pleased to share our 2014 Highlights report. The report describes our firm’s achievements, and our practice group’s events, representative matters and publications.
Please click here to view the report.
Our global insurance coverage lawyers and a guest speaker from Willis Group will discuss insurance coverage for data breaches and other cyber risks and how businesses can maximize their insurance coverage.
This is the third and final complimentary webinar in this series.
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Webinar Schedule: Log-in opens: 16:15 GMT; 11:15 EST; 8:15 PST
Program: 16:30 – 17:30 GMT; 11:30 – 12:30 EST; 8:30 – 9:30 PST
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