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Government,
Banking,
Administrative/Regulatory

Sep. 15, 2020

CFPB, California style

California is the latest state to adopt its own mini-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Under the new regime, we will get an expanded and reorganized banking regulator: the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

Nancy R. Thomas

Partner
Davis, Wright & Tremaine LLP

Phone: (213) 633-6800

Email: nancythomas@dwt.com

Univ of Chicago Law School; Chicago IL

Nancy is a consumer class action and regulatory enforcement lawyer who represents her clients in high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and administrative proceedings.

Joseph Gabai

Senior Counsel
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Email: jgabai@mofo.com

California has become the latest state to create its own mini-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In a one-two punch, we will see an expanded and reorganized banking regulator and a new law giving the agency new unfair, deceptive and abusive, referred to as UDAAP, and other authority mirroring the CFPB’s authority under the Dodd-Frank Act Title X.

This reorganization and expansion of the state banking agency is the latest in Calif...

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