Financial regulations

Title company sues feds over looming reporting rule

A leading title insurer is suing two federal U.S. offices over a new “arbitrary and capricious” reporting rule aimed at preventing money laundering activity that it claims exceeds their authority.  Fidelity National Financial and its similarly named title insurance subsidiary filed the lawsuit in a Florida federal district court in May. Named as defendants were […]

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CFPB blocks state enforcement of federal consumer laws

CFPB blocks state enforcement of federal consumer laws

Russell Vought is the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn guidance from the Biden administration that had expanded states’ rights, allowing individual states to broadly enforce violations of federal consumer protection laws. The CFPB under former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra interpreted the Consumer Financial Protection

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