Disputing would like to invite you to check out Liz Kramer’s recent blog post entitled CFPB’s Preliminary Report: Financial Consumers Can Only Avoid Arbitration By Using A Credit Union.

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As readers may know, Section 1028(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) requires the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) to “conduct a study of, and * * * provide a report to Congress concerning, the use of agreements providing for arbitration of any future dispute between covered persons and consumers in connection with the offering or providing of consu

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By Mark Kantor On April 24, the US Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it is commencing its review of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements with respect to consumer finance products and services. See the Bloomberg report of the CFPB announcement here. As readers may know, there has been heated discussion that the US Supreme Court decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion will enable financial institutions to comp

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