The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau brought an administrative enforcement action yesterday against morgage originator giant PHH Corporation alleging, among other things, violations of the anti-kickback provisions of The Real Estate Settlements Procedures Act (RESPA). To quote the agency's press release: Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) initiated an administrative proceeding against PHH Corporation and […]
Here. Here's a list of the articles: Credit Reports and Employment: Findings from the 2012 National Survey on Credit Card Debt of Low- and Middle-Income Households by Amy Traub · Medical Debt and Its Relevance When Assessing Creditworthiness by Mark Rukavina Discriminatory Effects of Credit Scoring on Communities of Color by Lisa Rice and Deidre Swesnik The Misconception of […]
A succinct summary of today's opinion in Starr Int'l v. Fed. Reserve Bank of N.Y.: This suit challenges the extraordinary measures taken by FRBNY to rescue AIG from bankruptcy at the height of the direst financial crisis in modern times. In light of the direct conflict these measures created between the private duties imposed by […]
Even as the Supreme Court has aggressively wielded the Federal Arbitration Act to preempt state-law contract rules that prevent arbitration, state courts have still been able to use traditional contract doctrines to invalidate arbitration agreements that are unfairly "one-sided" — for instance, where an agreement provides that a business gets to bring its claims in […]
James Angel of Georgetown's Finance Department and Douglas M. McCabe of Georgetown's Management Department have written The Ethics of Payments: Paper, Plastic, or Bitcoin? Here is the abstract: Individuals and businesses make billions of payments every day in various forms. Payers have choices about what forms of payment they will make, and payees also have […]
Last week in Nativi v. Deutsche Bank, the California Court of Appeal applied the federal Protecting Tenants Against Foreclosure Act of 2009 (PTFA) to revive two renters' state-law claims against the bank that bought the property they were renting. Rosario Nativi and her son Jose Perez had been living in their home in Sunnyvale, California, […]
William Alden explains that Shiela Bair, former Chair and board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has joined the board of the Spanish bank Banco Santander. She left the FDIC in 2011 and said the next year in her book about the financial crisis that “I would like to see financial regulation be viewed […]
We've covered the Target data breach and posted pieces (here, for instance) suggesting what consumers can do to mitigate the risks from that breach and others like it. Now, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a consumer advisory of its own on the topic. The agency has also issued a press release, which I'm […]
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: CALL FOR PAPERS LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN PREDICTIVE DATA ANALYTICS June 19 & 20, 2014 Blacksburg, Va. Abstract Submission Deadline: March 3, 2014 A research colloquium, “Legal and Ethical Issues in Predictive Data Analytics,” hosted by Professor Janine Hiller of Virginia Tech and co-organized by Professor Tonia Hap Murphy of the University […]
OSHA has proposed making public workplace illness and injury reports, but employers are opposed and have asked their lawyers to try to nix the proposal. Read Jenna Greene's article here.