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Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Reject CFPB Reversal of Townstone Financial Settlement

Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Reject CFPB Reversal of Townstone Financial Settlement

by Phil Hall | Apr 7, 2025 | News/Current Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

A coalition of civil rights and consumer advocacy groups has filed an amicus brief in federal district court seeking to stop the motion filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to vacate its $105,000 redlining settlement with the mortgage company...
CFPB Drops 2022 Enforcement Action Against TransUnion

CFPB Drops 2022 Enforcement Action Against TransUnion

by Phil Hall | Mar 3, 2025 | News/Current Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has dropped its enforcement action against the consumer credit report provider TransUnion (NYSE: TRU). According to Reuters, the CFPB initiated its enforcement against TransUnion case in 2022, claiming longtime executive...
CFPB Employees Claim Trump Wants to Reduce Agency to 5 Employees

CFPB Employees Claim Trump Wants to Reduce Agency to 5 Employees

by Phil Hall | Feb 28, 2025 | News/Current Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are claiming the Trump administration is planning to fire nearly all of the agency’s 1,700 employees in a three-phased strategy. According to a CNBC report sourced from testimony given by the agency’s...
Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Reject CFPB Reversal of Townstone Financial Settlement

CFPB Acting Director Vought Says White House Will Not Shut Down the Agency

by Phil Hall | Feb 25, 2025 | News/Current Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

The Trump administration has stated it will retain the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) in a streamlined realignment and does not plan to shut down the agency. Politico reports on a motion filed by Acting CFPB Director Russ Vought late Monday in federal...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: 60 Minutes vs. DOGE vs. CFPB

A Phil Hall Op-Ed: 60 Minutes vs. DOGE vs. CFPB

by Phil Hall | Feb 24, 2025 | A Phil Hall Op-Ed, News/Current Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Silly me, I thought that “Saturday Night Live” was the only stale survivor from distant generations still wasting time and energy on the television schedule. But then I watched Sunday’s segment of “60 Minutes” on the Consumer Financial Protection...
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