The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced that it had reached an agreement to give students of Corinthian College, Inc. at least $480 million in principal reductions on existing student debt. Former and current students will receive an immediate 40% reduction on existing principal balances of their loans with…
On February 2, 2015, the CFPB announced that it had reached a settlement with the ECMC Group and the Zenith Education Group (collectively “ECMC”), two companies that had purchased colleges formerly affiliated with Corinthian Colleges, Inc. ECMC agreed to coordinate $480 million in debt relief for current and former Corinthian…
The latest CFPB Supervisory Highlights report details the Bureau’s concerns regarding student loan lenders. The report, which is the fifth edition of Supervisory Highlights, generally covers supervisory activities between March and June 2014. In it, the CFPB notes that its examiners found the following concerns when reviewing practices of student…
On September 16, the CFPB filed suit against Corinthian Colleges, Inc. in the Northern District of Illinois for engaging in alleged predatory student lending. This is the CFPB’s second predatory student lending suit against a for-profit college; the first being against ITT (reported by LenderLaw Watch here). The allegations and relief…
On January 22, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that in its first action, the newly created Student Protection Unit issued thirteen subpoenas to student debt relief companies as part of an investigation into allegations of improper fees and misleading advertising. The Student Protection Unit is a division within the…