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[Opinion] hat the Navient Lawsuit Means for Your Student Loans

Navient, a company that derived from Sallie Mae, has more than 12 million customers and services more than $300 billion of government and private student loans. In January, a lawsuit was filed against the student loan lender where the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleged that Navient “systematically and illegally failed borrowers at every stage of …


Online Lender Wins Motion to Compel Arbitration and Avoids Nationwide Consumer Class Action

This article was co-authored by Allyson B. Baker and Joseph Leonard Robbins. It originally appeared on Venable.com and is republished here with permission. In a putative nationwide consumer class action against an online marketplace lender and its bank partner, Bethune v. LendingClub Corp., et al., a federal judge in the Southern District of New York recently granted defendants’ motion to …


What the Navient Lawsuit Means for Your Student Loans

On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against Navient, the largest student loan servicer in the country. If you have a student loan, there is a good chance that it may be serviced by Navient. Navient, which spun off from Sallie Mae, has more than 12 million customers and services more than $300 billion of government and private student loans. Here is what you need to know and the action that you can take …


Appeals Court Nixes Payday Lender Class-Action Suit

Cash Zone store that operated at 8923 Culebra Road. In a 2-1 opinion, the 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that payday-loan customers must use arbitration instead of the courts if they think a lender illegally used the criminal justice system to pursue unpaid loans. Cash Zone store that operated at 8923 Culebra Road.


CFPB Invites Complaints About New Set of Lenders; Compliance Issues Hit Capital Markets

Regulators don’t like the unregulated, and in what some would term, “the CFPB inviting more into its boat to be bashed with oars,” it announced it is accepting complaints from consumers encountering problems with loans from online marketplace lenders. “The Bureau is also releasing a consumer bulletin that provides an overview of marketplace lending and outlines tips for consumers who are …