Goodwin Procter today announced the launch of Consumer Finance Enforcement Watch, a new firm blog that represents a first-of-its-kind resource for the consumer finance industry.
With the advent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), there has been an explosion of consumer finance-related enforcement activity at the federal and state level. The activity concerns a wide range of business practices and often reflects inter-agency coordination.
Against this backdrop, Goodwin Procter created the Consumer Finance Enforcement Watch blog – the marketplace’s first resource for real-time reporting on the full range of public federal and state consumer finance enforcement activity. The blog is designed to identify and briefly summarize new enforcement actions with immediacy and without the delay that would be necessary to provide more detailed analyses. By giving industry participants and watchers the headline and a high-level summary, the blog enables subscribers to keep abreast of activity as it happens. The blog also provides links to public enforcement documents, statistics on the volume and nature of enforcement actions, and reports and comments on significant enforcement trends and issues.
The blog intends to cover enforcement actions brought by the CFPB, Federal Reserve Board, Office of Comptroller Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general and key state financial services regulators concerning:
- Consumer financial products and services offered by depository and non-depository institutions, including the extension and servicing of mortgage, auto, credit card, student or other unsecured consumer credit; the taking and evaluation of consumer credit applications; consumer credit reporting; the offering of deposit products; the processing of payments by consumers; and the collection of consumer debt
- The enumerated consumer finance laws, including but not limited to, TILA, RESPA, FDCPA, FCRA, FACTA, FHA, ECOA, UDAP, UDAAP, along with state consumer protection laws
Please visit the Consumer Finance Enforcement Watch Blog, available at www.EnforcementWatch.com, and follow the associated Twitter handle (@GPEnforceWatch).