Jun 21, 2022 | 2022, Banking, COVID-19, Credit, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, Food for thought, Lawyers, News
by Erich Paetsch, Chair, Financial Services Industry Group Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Gross v. CitiMortgage considered the extent to which financial institutions furnishing consumer credit information to reporting agencies must investigate...
May 18, 2020 | 2020, Banking, COVID-19, Credit, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Employers, Financial Services
By Erich Paetsch, Attorney in the Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Groups In response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is drastically impacting the United States we know, many lenders significantly increased loan loss...
May 11, 2020 | 2020, Banking, COVID-19, Credit, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services
By Shannon Raye Martinez, Attorney in the Creditor’s Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Groups On May 6, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a policy statement answering three questions relating to the Paycheck...
May 6, 2020 | 2020, Banking, Business, COVID-19, Credit, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, News
By Litigation Practice Group On April 30, 2020, Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services (“DCBS”) published Bulletin No. DFR 2020-2014 (the “Bulletin”) to provide guidance to Oregon-regulated collection agencies and debt purchasers to actively help...
Apr 28, 2020 | 2020, Business, COVID-19, Credit, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Events, Financial Services, Insurance, News
By Litigation Practice Group Earlier this month, we wrote about Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services (“DCBS”)’s order (“Order”) suspending all cancellations and non-renewals in place as the date of the Order. The Order applies to all types of...
Apr 16, 2020 | 2020, Banking, COVID-19, Credit, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, News, Real Property & Land Use
By Shannon Martinez, Attorney in the Creditor’s Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Groups On April 14, 2020, the FDIC, OCC and Federal Reserve issued an interim final rule that allows lenders to close certain real estate loans without an appraisal...
