On January 31, 2025, President Trump designated Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Hours before a scheduled hearing yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) filed an “Emergency Notice” in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit with respect to the ongoing litigation challenging the CFPB’s Small Business Lending Data Collection final rule under Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act (the 1071 Rule), discussed here. The notice announced that, with the removal of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra over the weekend, “Counsel for the CFPB has been instructed not to make any appearances in litigation except to seek a pause in proceedings.”
You’ve probably been impacted by a data breach, even if you don’t know it. Major data breaches – like the national public data breach which comprised sensitive data of over half of the US population – have become alarmingly common, while much smaller attacks take place on home soil every day.
A 2023 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Order interpreted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act as requiring that consumers provide specific one-to-one consent to receive robocalls. The purpose was to fill what the FCC called the “marketing partner” gap, which allowed marketers to obtain consent from consumers by checking a box applying to multiple, often unrelated, callers. The Order was to go into effect on January 27, 2025.
Despite a general decrease in payment issues, financially struggling consumers continue to face these disruptions at alarmingly high rates, especially when making essential purchases.
According to a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Financially Struggling Consumers Are Twice as Likely to Face Payment Declines,” while payment declines have decreased overall, consumers living paycheck-to-paycheck remain more vulnerable. These consumers encounter payment failures at much higher rates, particularly when making essential purchases. This issue is intensified by the rising frequency of debit card rejections, which now outpace credit card failures by a large margin.
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