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Bureau may revive Payday Lending ATR requirement

The CFPB has posted a blog article by Acting Director Dave Uejio with a commitment to protect vulnerable borrowers. The article focused on consumer harms in the small dollar lending market, with particular concerns about any lender’s business model that is dependent on consumers’ inability to repay their loans. Uejio said that years of research by the CFPB found the vast majority of this industry’s revenue came from consumers who could not afford to repay their loans, with most short-term loans in reborrowing chains of 10 or more. One-in-five payday loans, and one-in-three vehicle title loans, ended in default, even including periods of reborrowing. And one-in-five vehicle title loan borrowers ended up having their car or truck seized by the lender.

Uejio noted that in 2020 the prior CFPB administration had revoked parts of its Payday Lending rule that would have addressed these harms. The later rule was challenged in court and the Bureau had a legal obligation to respond to the lawsuit. Accordingly, the Bureau has filed a brief addressing only the court’s jurisdiction to hear the case. The brief does not address the merits of the underlying rule, and the Bureau’s filing should not be regarded as an indication that the Bureau is satisfied with the status quo in this market. To the contrary, said Uejio, the Bureau believes that the harms identified by the 2017 rule still exist, and will use the authority provided by Congress to address these harms, including through vigorous market monitoring, supervision, enforcement, and, if appropriate, rulemaking.

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