The AG’s Office settled with Toyota Motor Credit Corp. for illegal auto finance collection practices and Hometown Auto Framingham for discriminatory prices of add ons.
Richard Cordray and Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee are set to square off next Wednesday. It will be the first time the director of the CFPB will appear before the committee since it issued two reports criticizing the bureau’s activities in the auto finance arena.
The three-year standoff between Toyota Motor Credit, the Justice Department and the CFPB is over, with the captive agreeing to pay up to $21.9 million in restitution to minority borrowers the regulators allege were overcharged on their auto loans. The captive also agreed to lower its dealer markup caps.
Industry representatives and consumer advocacy groups squared off in Washington, D.C., last month for the CFPB’s first public forum on auto lending. The event revealed the tightrope the bureau is walking between preserving a rebounding market and strengthening consumer protections.
The magazine’s legal insider doesn't believe the bureau has jurisdiction over the F&I products industry, but she admits there’s too much gray area in the Dodd-Frank Act to know for sure.
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