The class members are 85 Black and Hispanic employees who between February 2011 and April 2022 worked in the CFPB’s Office of Consumer Response in non-supervisory positions.
The CFPB warned that lenders that use artificial intelligence and other "black box" credit models need to provide specific reasons for denying credit to loan applicants.
"It’s really difficult to predict with certainty and detail what exactly is going to happen in the third quarter of 2026," said Leda Bloomfield, branch chief for policy and equity at the FHFA.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency looked at about 220,000 loans to more than 300,000 borrowers to assess the impact of going from tri-merge credit scoring to bi-merge.