CRL in the News

Mitria Spotser, vice president and director of federal policy at the Center for Responsible Lending, called for more regulations with regard to EWA and BNPL. “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck,” she said. “Buy now, pay later, early wage access – they look, act and function...

The Center for Responsible Lending helped write the report. The group's spokesperson, Rochelle Sparko, said they're urging judges to waive civil penalties for those unable to pay them. "It is our position that this is a far better outcome for folks who truly are indigent, then converting fines and fees to a civil judgment largely because of those long term...

In his Oct. 1 op-ed, “Diminish Congress’s taste for diminishment,” George F. Will urged the Supreme Court to affirm a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that invalidated funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This decision is contradicted by constitutional text, historical practice and judicial precedent, including recent rulings by the 2nd Circuit...

George F. Will argued that the Supreme Court should hold the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding unconstitutional to “strengthen Congress.” This is an Orwellian claim if ever there were one, because such a decision would strip Congress of a power it has exercised since the nation’s founding.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency that rose from the wreckage of the Great Recession, is readying for a high-stakes fight Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court.

“The Supreme Court has a choice in its ruling: it can side with judicial precedent, historical practice, common sense, and text of the Constitution—or it can side with payday lenders and economic chaos,” said Michael Calhoun, president of the Center for Responsible Lending, one of the groups represented at the rally.

Student debt can also ripple from one generation to the next, those at the CBCF conference emphasized. That debt makes it harder to build wealth as "the disproportionate impact of student loan debt on Black borrowers…has been demonstrated to exacerbate the racial wealth gap," a study from the Center for Responsible Lending found.

HORSLEY: You know, the CFPB is popular with the public. Polls show Democrats and Republicans alike feel it's useful to have an agency that's looking out for them in their dealings with often much more sophisticated financial institutions. Over the years, the bureau has recovered some $17 billion for consumers. It's gone after not only predatory lenders, but debt collectors...

"Es probable que los latinos retrasen decisiones financieras importantes, como comprar una casa, debido a sus préstamos estudiantiles, lo que en última instancia los mantiene en un ciclo de deuda", dijo David Ferreira, gerente senior de asuntos gubernamentales del Centro para Préstamos Responsables.

“Latinos are likely to delay important financial decisions, like purchasing a home, because of their student loans, which ultimately keeps them in a cycle of debt,” said David Ferreira, senior government affairs manager at the Center for Responsible Lending.