CFPB Exercising Authority Over 60 Percent of Debt Collection Market
March 25, 2013
The CFPB now has the lions share of the oversight of the consumer debt collection market. Under the larger participant rule recently adopted by the CFPB, any firm with more than $10 million in annual receipts from consumer debt collection activities is now subject to the bureaus supervisory authority. This authority extends to about 175 debt collectors, which accounts for over 60 percent of the industrys annual receipts in the consumer debt collection market, the bureau said in its annual report to Congress on the Fair...