We’re getting close to the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting & Independents Conference & Expo! Keep an eye on your mailbox – all attendees will be receiving a copy of former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray’s new book, Watchdog, about consumer protection and the role and importance of the CFPB.
Before joining the Consumer Bureau, Rich served as Ohio’s Attorney General, where he and his team recovered over $2 billion for Ohio’s retirees, investors, and business owners and took major steps to protect consumers from fraudulent foreclosures and financial predators. He also served as Ohio Treasurer, where he led the State’s banking, investment, debt, and financing activities. He previously taught at Ohio State’s law school and served as a state legislator and as Ohio’s first Solicitor General. Rich has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including by special appointment of both the Clinton and Bush Justice Departments.
Rich graduated from Michigan State University’s James Madison College, Oxford University in England, and the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. He lives in Grove City, Ohio with his wife Peggy, a law professor at Capital University Law School, and twin children Danny and Holly.
Richard Cordray served for six years as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by a bipartisan vote of the Senate. During his tenure, the Bureau returned over $12 billion to 30 million Americans, handled 1.3 million consumer complaints that resolved many individual problems, and adopted new rules to safeguard the mortgage market that caused the financial crisis of 2008 and the deep recession that followed. He is the author of Watchdog, released in March 2020, about consumer protection and the role and importance of the CFPB.
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Check your mailbox – “Watchdog” is on the way
Sep 24, 2020
We’re getting close to the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting & Independents Conference & Expo! Keep an eye on your mailbox – all attendees will be receiving a copy of former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)… Read the rest
AFSAEF Announces New Learning Activities Resource
Sep 24, 2020
The American Financial Services Association (AFSA) Education Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive collection of digital financial education resources and activities titled, MoneySKILL® Learning Activities… Read the rest
Live from California Wine Country
Sep 23, 2020
Join us after Wednesday’s sessions on October 7th at 4:00 p.m. ET, for a live wine tasting from the founder and winemaker of Voluptuary Winery! Crack open the wines shipped to you and sip along with your colleagues!*
Kevin Luther is the… Read the rest
AFSA asks Supreme Court to Take Up Due Process Case
Sep 21, 2020
AFSA joined with other trade associations in asking the Supreme Court to take up a due process case. Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. raises an important question – whether, in a class action, the due process clause of the Fourteenth… Read the rest
AFSA, Joint Trades Urge Congress to Simplify PPP Loan Forgiveness Process
Sep 21, 2020
This week AFSA joined other trade groups in urging Congressional leaders to pass legislation that would streamline the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness process. The PPP provided millions of small businesses with much-needed… Read the rest
“Lightning Round” Discussions at the AFSA Annual Meeting & Independents Conference & Expo
Sep 18, 2020
Register today for AFSA’s virtual conference, which opens Tuesday, October 6th and runs through Thursday, October 8th. Each day’s sessions run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET, and feature compelling keynotes, informative and interactive breakout… Read the rest
WATCH | We let Bill out of the Himpler Homestead!
Sep 18, 2020
AFSA President & CEO Bill Himpler is excited for the 2020 Annual Meeting & Independents Conference & Expo!
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… Read the rest“Lightning Round” Roundtable Discussions at the AFSA Annual Meeting
Sep 17, 2020
Join “lightning round” conversations on a range of topics that the consumer credit industry is facing. Each virtual roundtable is live and allows for video or audio discussions with presenters.
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Where Fraud Is Headed in a Post-Pandemic World
Sep 17, 2020
What should you be aware of and be planning for as markets begin to shift, and we begin to emerge in a post-pandemic world? PointPredictive’s Frank McKenna, Chief Fraud Strategist, defi’s Charles Sutherland, Chief Strategy Officer, and Earl… Read the rest
AFSA Applauds Senate Action on the ESIGN Act
Sep 16, 2020
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation this week approved S. 4159 – the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Modernization Act), on a party-line vote, 14-12.
Consumers currently are … Read the rest