Compliance Watch

Question: How are soft credit pulls supposed to work? Answer: A “soft pull” or pre-screening request is when a creditor wishes to know if a certain category of consumers may meet the requirements for a certain credit product.

With CU PolicyPro, credit unions have a comprehensive suite of features to create, maintain, and distribute policies.

FRBservices has reported U.S. consumers are seeking faster payments in more areas of their increasingly on-demand lives, with four out of five saying they are interested in faster options to pay businesses, according to a survey released recently by the Federal Reserve Banks.

The CFPB is seeking to move away from highly complicated rules that have long been a staple of consumer financial regulation and toward simpler and clearer rules, said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra in a recent Bureau Blog article.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) recently announced the availability of data on 2021 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act by 4,338 U.S. financial institutions.

The CFPB has posted a Bureau Blog article, "Measuring the Impact of Financial Institution Overdraft Programs on Consumers," announcing that the Bureau has been piloting a supervision effort to collect key metrics from some supervised institutions regarding the consumer impact of their overdraft and non-sufficient fund practices.

On June 10, the Texas Credit Union Commission met at the Texas Credit Union Department building in Austin. The following is a summary of the meeting.

Yesterday, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2543, the Expanding Financial Access for Underserved Communities Act, as part of a larger financial services bill.

Texas Credit Union Department Commissioner John Kolhoff has announced his resignation, effective July 15, 2022. The Credit Union Commission will promptly begin a search for his replacement.

Question: Under Reg E, if a member is persuaded to initiate a transaction (on his/her own) that the member later learns to be fraudulent, is that considered and unauthorized transaction we would have to credit the member for? Answer: No. Regulation E and recent interpretations from the CFPB reaffirm that if a member initiates a transaction using that member’s own credentials, the transaction is not considered unauthorized.