On February 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit vacated a lower court’s dismissal of a federal consumer protection lawsuit and remanded the case for further proceedings. The plaintiff had filed FDCPA and TILA claims against a credit union and its insurer, alleging that after an Indiana state court entered a garnishment order to collect an unpaid balance exceeding $40,000, the defendants engaged in unauthorized post-judgment debt collection, false reporting, and failed to provide accurate disclosures.
On March 6, 2026, a U.S. district court will consider whether to approve a settlement agreement resolving parallel lawsuits by the Texas attorney general (AG) and the federal government against Houston-area developer Colony Ridge Development, LLC and related companies. The complaints in both suits — which were filed during the Biden administration — claim that Colony Ridge discriminatorily targeted Hispanic consumers with predatory financing to purchase land for residences in areas that were in fact uninhabitable.
Since its inception in 2011, the CFPB has cost consumers between $237 billion and $369 billion, the Trump Administration’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) said, in a report.
The Federal Trade Commission has formally eliminated the Non-Compete Clause Rule (16 CFR Part 910) from the Code of Federal Regulations. This procedural step closes the chapter on the agency’s attempted nationwide ban and aligns federal regulations with court rulings that blocked the rule before it could take effect.
As delinquency rates rise, the volume of accounts represented by Debt Settlement Companies (DSCs) has reached a critical mass. Historically, many lenders have viewed the presence of a DSC as an obstacle—a third party that "interrupts" the direct relationship with the consumer. However, a more productive operational view is to treat the DSC as a structured resolution partner that can be leveraged to liquidate risk more efficiently than traditional outbound efforts.
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