CFPB-NEWS-2501

CFPB-NEWS-2501 – News Releases for January, 2025 (2025)

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News Source:  https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/?title=&from_date=2025-01-01&to_date=2025-01-31

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January 30, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Orders Wise to Pay $2.5 Million for Illegal Remittance Practices
• (PR) – CFPB Updates List of Consumer Reporting Companies

January 29, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Finds Servicemembers Pay More in Auto Lending Market

January 28, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Letter to Massachusetts State Legislature on Barring Medical Bills on Credit Reports
• (PR) – CFPB Letter to South Dakota State Legislature on Barring Medical Bills on Credit Reports
• (PR) – CFPB Letter to Oregon State Legislature on Barring Medical Bills on Credit Reports
• (PR) – CFPB Letter to Washington State Legislature on Barring Medical Bills on Credit Reports
• (PR) – CFPB Report Finds Continued Challenges for Households that Rent

January 24, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Report Finds Cash-Out Mortgage Refinance Borrowers Improve Credit Scores

January 23, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Finds More Vehicles Eligible for Repossession Than Pre-Pandemic

January 17, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Orders Equifax to Pay $15 Million for Improper Investigations of Credit Reporting Errors
• (PR) – CFPB Takes Action Against Draper & Kramer Mortgage for Discriminatory Mortgage Lending Practices
• (PR) – CFPB Orders Honda’s Auto Financing Arm to Pay $12.8 Million for COVID-19 and Other Credit Reporting Failures

January 16, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Orders Operator of Cash App to Pay $175 Million and Fix Its Failures on Fraud
• (PR) – CFPB Takes Action to Address Illegal Debt Collection Practices by the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts

January 15, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Director Rohit Chopra and General Counsel Seth Frotman article on state enforcement as a federal legislative tool

January 14, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Sues Capital One for Cheating Consumers Out of More Than $2 Billion in Interest Payments on Savings Accounts

January 13, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Research Reveals Heavy Buy Now, Pay Later Use Among Borrowers with High Credit Balances and Multiple Pay-in-Four Loans
• (PR) – CFPB Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Mortgages in Southeast and Central Southwest US Likely Underinsured Against Flood Risk
• (PR) – CFPB Proposes Rule to Ban Contract Clauses that Strip Away Fundamental Freedoms

January 10, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Seeks Input on Digital Payment Privacy and Consumer Protections

January 8, 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Approves Application from Financial Data Exchange to Issue Standards for Open Banking

January 7, 2025

• (PR) – The Federal General Counsel, Law, and Our Democracy at a Crossroads
• (PR) – CFPB Sues Experian for Sham Investigations of Credit Report Errors
• (PR) – CFPB Finalizes Rule to Remove Medical Bills from Credit Reports
• (PR) – CFPB termina norma sobre facturas médicas en informes de crédito | CFPB

January 6 2025

• (PR) – CFPB Sues Vanderbilt for Setting Borrowers Up to Fail in Manufactured Home Loans

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Resources:

• (FTC) (consumer.ftc.gov) – Free Credit Reports
• (FTC) (consumer.ftc.gov) – Credit Freeze or Fraud Alert: What’s Right for Your Credit Report?
• (FTC) (www.identitytheft.gov) – Credit Bureau Contacts