The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Provides Guidance for Mortgage Advertising
In a joint-agency media conference and press release with the Federal Trade Commission today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau used the “rulemaking-through-enforcement” method of regulation to create several de-facto guidelines for what is “unfair, deceptive, or abusive” in mortgage advertising. Bypassing the more arduous rulemaking process, the CFPB published “sample warning letters” that effectively made the following advertising practices illegal:
