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Articlesby Gregory ArroyoNovember 19, 2013

Sizing Up the CFPB’s Threat

The F&I Conference’s compliance panel offered up more questions than answers, but participants made clear the industry’s newest regulator has plenty of tools at its disposal.

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ArticlesNovember 18, 2013

Alphabet Soup

The CFPB, FRB and DOJ joined forces to host a fair lending webinar. The latter two shed some light on their approach to determining rate discrimination, but the CFPB’s standards for determining disparate impact remain a mystery.

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NewsNovember 14, 2013

Disparate Impact Challenge Ends in Settlement on Eve of CFPB Forum

On the eve of the CFPB’s first public forum on auto lending, a town council in New Jersey unanimously votes to settle a lawsuit centered on the disparate impact theory.

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NewsNovember 7, 2013

Town Delays Vote in Disparate Impact Case

A New Jersey housing bias case the Supreme Court agreed to hear could end in settlement. If an agreement isn’t reached, the high court could strike down the CFPB’s use of the disparate impact theory in its scrutiny of rate participation programs.

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NewsSeptember 19, 2013

EEOC Sues Chicago Dealer for Harassing Muslim, Arab Employees

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Chicago’s Rizza Cadillac after three employees complained of harassment.

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NewsAugust 13, 2013

CFPB Responds to House Republicans

The CFPB was short on details when it responded last week to 35 House Republicans who requested additional information on the bureau’s review of dealer participation programs.

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ArticlesJuly 15, 2013

Taking Fire

Until last month, the CFPB was doing a lot more aiming than shooting. But its first enforcement action against an auto finance source and its partner company proves the agency isn’t firing blanks.

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NewsJune 27, 2013

CFPB Orders U.S. Bank, DFS to Pay $6.5M in Restitution

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered U.S. Bank and its nonbank partner company, Dealers’ Financial Services, to pay restitution to participants in the Military Installment Loans and Educational Services (MILES) auto loans program.

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NewsMay 30, 2013

NADA Chairman: ‘CFPB Guidance Lacks Transparency and Research’

The 2013 chairman calls out the CFPB for not demonstrating that problems exist with dealer participation programs, and questions the bureau’s use of the disparate impact theory.

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NewsMay 30, 2013

House Democrats Question CFPB Probe of Auto Finance

Thirteen Democrats in Congress sent a letter to the CFPB's Richard Cordray, asking for “any and all background information” on the bureau's investigations of auto finance.

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