The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) hosted a webinar, led by Director Kathy Kraninger and Associate Director for Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending Bryan Schneider, laying out its supervisory and enforcement priorities in light of COVID-19. These priorities will necessarily impact the CFPB’s enforcement of the Fair Credit […]
Kohl’s Department Stores Inc. settled Federal Trade Commission claims that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by failing to provide required application and business transaction records to consumers who were victims of identity theft. Kohl’s agreed to pay a civil penalty of $220,000. The complaint, filed […]
In response to Senate Report 116-111, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently submitted a report to Congress updating lawmakers on “its consumer education efforts with respect to disputing and correcting information in a credit report, as well as its enforcement efforts related to dispute processes and the correction […]
We recently discussed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) and how it amends the duties of a furnisher of information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furnishers, however, must still be mindful not to relax their procedures […]
By Nikku Khalifian A recent Sixth Circuit decision addressed whether FCRA imposes a technical-accuracy standard or an “inaccurate or misleading standard” on § 1681e(b) plaintiffs. In Twumasi-Ankrah v. Checkr, Inc., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 10427 (6th Cir. April 2, 2020), the Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded the decision […]
