Much has been written about what the CFPB is no longer doing. Enforcement investigations have slowed dramatically. Supervision has been scaled back, the direction of rulemaking has changed significantly, and the Bureau’s priorities have shifted away from the aggressive enforcement agenda that characterized much of its existence. Far less attention has been paid to what is replacing that federal enforcement presence.
The White House has announced the launch of GOLD EAGLE, a new artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity clearinghouse intended to accelerate the identification, verification, prioritization, and remediation of software vulnerabilities across both the public and private sectors. According to the White House announcement, the initiative is designed to leverage frontier AI capabilities to identify cyber vulnerabilities more quickly than existing methods while reducing duplicative scanning efforts and providing actionable remediation information to government agencies and private-sector organizations.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed Senate Bill 3025 into law, officially creating the Medical Debt Acquisition and Forgiveness Program. Administered by the Office of Wellness and Resilience within the Department of Human Services, the initiative establishes a process for eliminating qualifying medical debt for eligible Hawaii residents. Under the program, the state’s contracted nonprofit partner, Undue Medical Debt, purchases portfolios of medical debt directly from health care providers and collection agencies.
The idea of oversight has expanded beyond the walls of the financial institution. Regulators are increasingly looking at the entire "resolution chain," meaning a credit provider’s compliance standing is linked to the actions of the debt settlement advisors their consumers choose. This creates a unique challenge: how does an institution maintain its high standards of consumer protection when the primary interaction is handled by an external relationship?
Businesses that conduct text message marketing campaigns have significantly reduced exposure to class action claims under § 227(c)(5) in the Seventh Circuit. Class actions predicated solely on unwanted marketing texts are now subject to dismissal in district courts within the Seventh Circuit.
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