Magazine : Archives : 1st Quarter 2023

Learning to Live With the CFPB

In the life of a growing community bank, few events are more portentous than passing the $10 billion asset threshold. Not only do the regulatory compliance expectations increase significantly, but banks over $10 billion acquire a new regulator — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 after the global financial crisis, the CFPB has been a lightning rod for political and legal controversy from the very beginning. As the name implies, the bureau’s sole focus is consumer protection, and its authority extends to a wide swath of banks and nonbank financial companies, markets and products....