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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Dismantled: What Does It Mean, and What Comes Next?

Examines CFPB’s authorities, recent constitutional controversies, administrative changes under new leadership, and implications for financial institutions’ compliance strategies.

2025-03-26 13:00:00

Program Details

2025-03-26 13:00:00

Program Details

2025-03-26 13:00:00

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2025-03-26 13:00:00

Course Overview

Navigating CFPB Regulatory Uncertainty

2025-03-26 13:00:00

Participants will learn CFPB authorities, constitutional foundations, and enforcement mechanisms during administrative transition. Attorneys gain practical strategies for compliance management and risk assessment.

Format

CLE Credit

2h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

2

Key topics that will be covered

01
Bureau Authorities
The CFPB possesses rulemaking, enforcement, and supervision powers over consumer financial law.
02
Constitutional Challenges
Courts addressed removal protection and funding mechanism challenges to Bureau constitutionality.
03
Mortgage Regulations
Title 14 regulations define qualified mortgages and ability-to-repay requirements essential to markets.
04
State Enforcement
States can obtain full Dodd-Frank remedies against non-bank covered persons and service providers.
05
Recent Changes
Director Chopra was fired, operations ceased, and significant employee departures occurred.
06
Compliance Strategy
Use this period to self-assess compliance gaps and build sustainable systems.

Program schedule

clock 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm EST

Basics of the Consumer Financial Protection Act

This session explores the CFPB’s creation following the 2008 financial crisis and its core authorities including rulemaking, enforcement, and supervision. Attendees will learn key concepts such as covered persons, service providers, consumer financial products, and the Bureau’s unique regulatory position compared to prudential regulators.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
clock 1:20 pm - 1:40 pm EST

Past Constitutional Controversies and Legal Challenges

This session examines the major constitutional debates surrounding the CFPB, including challenges to the director’s removal protection and the Bureau’s unique funding mechanism. Participants will understand how Supreme Court decisions shaped the Bureau’s structure while allowing it to continue operations.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
clock 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm EST

What the CFPB Actually Does Daily

This session details the Bureau’s practical functions, with emphasis on Title 14 mortgage market regulations and the qualified mortgage safe harbor. Attendees will learn why these regulations are essential to market function and how the back-and-forth between administrations has impacted industry compliance.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
clock 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm EST

Break

A short break to refresh before continuing with the remaining sessions.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
clock 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm EST

Recent CFPB Rulemakings and Leadership Changes

This session covers the dramatic changes following Director Chopra’s termination, including headquarters closure, employee terminations, and litigation by the National Treasury Employees Union. Participants will learn about essential functions being restored and the ongoing brain drain affecting the Bureau’s capabilities.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
clock 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm EST

Alternative Enforcement Possibilities for CFPB Laws

This session explores who can fill the enforcement void as the Bureau shrinks, focusing on state attorneys general authority under Dodd-Frank to pursue full remedies against non-bank covered persons. Attendees will also learn about constitutional implications for administrative adjudication and the continued viability of consumer class actions.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
clock 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm EST

The Bureau's Future and Mortgage Markets

This session provides practical guidance for financial institutions navigating the current uncertainty, emphasizing the importance of maintaining compliance systems for future administrations. Participants will learn about the three-year statute of limitations, differing impacts on banks above and below $10 billion, and strategies for using this period to remediate compliance gaps.

Keith BradleyKeith Bradley
Steve ConigliaroSteve Conigliaro
David L. CoatsDavid L. Coats
Keith Bradley

Keith Bradley

Squire Patton Boggs

Steve Conigliaro

Steve Conigliaro

Squire Patton Boggs

David L. Coats

David L. Coats

Squire Patton Boggs

Keith Bradley

Keith Bradley

Squire Patton Boggs

Keith Bradley is co-chair of the Appellate & Supreme Court Practice, representing companies and individuals in appeals before federal and state courts. He specializes in challenges to regulatory policy, such as Administrative Procedure Act litigation, and counsels clients on regulatory compliance across multiple regulatory regimes, especially in the financial and energy sectors.

Education & Credentials

Teaches administrative law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Also a physicist who developed nanoelectronic sensor systems at a technology startup.

Recognition & Leadership

Has 13 issued patents to his name.

Professional Involvement

Member of the American Law Institute.

Experience

Senior advisor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where he organized the defense of significant regulatory challenges and advised on important department regulatory reforms. Former counsel in the Legal Division of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped draft significant regulations and worked with enforcement teams on significant matters. Has been in-house counsel in the financial sector, building and running the compliance management system for the first nationwide mortgage brokerage franchise.
Steve Conigliaro

Steve Conigliaro

Squire Patton Boggs

Steve Conigliaro is a principal in the firm’s Financial Services Practice, providing strategic counsel to clients on a wide range of consumer banking and bank regulatory matters with 20+ years of legal, risk and compliance experience in financial services.

Experience

Served in leadership roles in several corporate compliance and legal departments, including with some of the largest national banks in the US. Has been a trusted advisor to the world's largest national banks, foreign banking organizations, credit unions, auto captive finance companies, payment card networks, mortgage originators, student lending servicers and payment card issuing and acquiring banks. Has advocated on behalf of clients on supervisory and enforcement matters with OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC and CFPB. Led many important strategic transactions and partnership negotiations. Strong track record of successfully defending financial institutions on alleged fair lending violations under ECOA, FHA and CRA. Began his legal career at a leading global law firm and was a founding member of its Financial Services Practice Group.
David L. Coats

David L. Coats

Squire Patton Boggs

David is a commercial litigator with a focus on consumer protection, consumer finance, and privacy law. He helps businesses with their litigation needs and defends them when facing enforcement actions, and advises businesses on compliance with state and federal laws governing consumer finance, licensing and privacy laws.

Education & Credentials

Chancellor's Scholar at the University of Denver. Clerked for judges at the Colorado Supreme Court and the US District Court for the District of Colorado.

Professional Involvement

Pro bono work focuses on assisting non-profits and inmates. Local leader for the Boy Scouts of America.

Experience

Former Colorado Assistant Attorney General and Denver Deputy District Attorney who has litigated more than 20 trials. Worked at the Colorado Attorney General's Office and the US Attorney's Office. Clerk at the Colorado Court of Appeals. Prior to becoming an attorney, worked for a global non-profit in Moscow, Russia that taught college students how to become social entrepreneurs.
Keith Bradley

Keith Bradley

Squire Patton Boggs

Keith Bradley is co-chair of the Appellate & Supreme Court Practice, representing companies and individuals in appeals before federal and state courts. He specializes in challenges to regulatory policy, such as Administrative Procedure Act litigation, and counsels clients on regulatory compliance across multiple regulatory regimes, especially in the financial and energy sectors.

Education & Credentials

Teaches administrative law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Also a physicist who developed nanoelectronic sensor systems at a technology startup.

Recognition & Leadership

Has 13 issued patents to his name.

Professional Involvement

Member of the American Law Institute.

Experience

Senior advisor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where he organized the defense of significant regulatory challenges and advised on important department regulatory reforms. Former counsel in the Legal Division of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped draft significant regulations and worked with enforcement teams on significant matters. Has been in-house counsel in the financial sector, building and running the compliance management system for the first nationwide mortgage brokerage franchise.
Steve Conigliaro

Steve Conigliaro

Squire Patton Boggs

Steve Conigliaro is a principal in the firm’s Financial Services Practice, providing strategic counsel to clients on a wide range of consumer banking and bank regulatory matters with 20+ years of legal, risk and compliance experience in financial services.

Experience

Served in leadership roles in several corporate compliance and legal departments, including with some of the largest national banks in the US. Has been a trusted advisor to the world's largest national banks, foreign banking organizations, credit unions, auto captive finance companies, payment card networks, mortgage originators, student lending servicers and payment card issuing and acquiring banks. Has advocated on behalf of clients on supervisory and enforcement matters with OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC and CFPB. Led many important strategic transactions and partnership negotiations. Strong track record of successfully defending financial institutions on alleged fair lending violations under ECOA, FHA and CRA. Began his legal career at a leading global law firm and was a founding member of its Financial Services Practice Group.
David L. Coats

David L. Coats

Squire Patton Boggs

David is a commercial litigator with a focus on consumer protection, consumer finance, and privacy law. He helps businesses with their litigation needs and defends them when facing enforcement actions, and advises businesses on compliance with state and federal laws governing consumer finance, licensing and privacy laws.

Education & Credentials

Chancellor's Scholar at the University of Denver. Clerked for judges at the Colorado Supreme Court and the US District Court for the District of Colorado.

Professional Involvement

Pro bono work focuses on assisting non-profits and inmates. Local leader for the Boy Scouts of America.

Experience

Former Colorado Assistant Attorney General and Denver Deputy District Attorney who has litigated more than 20 trials. Worked at the Colorado Attorney General's Office and the US Attorney's Office. Clerk at the Colorado Court of Appeals. Prior to becoming an attorney, worked for a global non-profit in Moscow, Russia that taught college students how to become social entrepreneurs.

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