Daily Digest - April 17, 2025

🎂🎉 Happy Birthday wishes to: Jeffrey Berenholz of Annuity Health, James Vahalik of National Enterprise Systems, and Aleah Heath of Symple Lending. 🎁🥳

Congratulations to Bekah Luebcke, who was promoted to EVP of Operations and Linda Varner, who was promoted to EVP of Audit & Compliance at Crown Asset Management.

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Getting to Know Rocky Landoll of BCA Financial Services

• If you’re going to invite Rocky Landoll to a meeting, there better be a legitimate reason for having it. Meetings that recap other meetings definitely seem to be a pet peeve of his. Perhaps that doesn’t fit into the category of small things that you shouldn’t sweat (he’ll explain it below). Read on to learn more about Rocky, his great sense of humor, and his plan for being a fishing boat captain in the Windy City.

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CFPB to Scale Back Supervision, Shift Focus to Combatting Consumer Fraud

• The Chief Legal Officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday published a memo detailing a major shift in the Bureau’s enforcement and supervision priorities for 2025. According to the memo sent to staff, the bureau will significantly cut the number of its supervisory exams and refocus its efforts on addressing tangible harms to consumers, particularly those affecting service members, veterans, and their families.

• More details here.

Court Calls Out Defendant for ‘Rubber Stamping’ Investigation, Denies MSJ in FCRA Case

• Issues with identity theft and reasonable investigations can be very complicated. Case in point — the forensic analysis detailed in this ruling in which a District Court judge in California partially denied a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a case alleging violations of both the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, among other claims.

• More details here.

Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty to Scam Involving Impersonation of Sheriff’s Deputy and Attorney

• A Buffalo-area man has pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud after being accused of a debt collection scam in which he impersonated a local sheriff’s deputy and an attorney to bilk unsuspecting consumers out of more than $420,000.

• More details here.

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