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The First Step to Accurate Credit Data? Metro 2® Fundamentals Training
The first step to accurate credit data? Start with the fundamentals. For data furnishers, understanding the Metro 2® Format is essential...
Credit Washing, Disputes and Fraud: What you need to know in our upcoming webinar
Credit Washing is not going away just yet and we have already seen how it can distort credit risk assessments, undermine confidence...
The Full Picture Matters: Why the tri-merge protects homebuyers
- August 6, 2026
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By Dan Smith, President and CEO, Consumer Data Industry Association On July 1, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac released historical FICO...
Brittany Bailey
January 28, 2026
This week, CDIA submitted formal comments advocating changes to the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s complaint portal. As with our prior comments and...
Eric Ellman
May 2, 2023
“Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal...
Eric Ellman
April 18, 2023
By Jennifer Sarvadi and Erik Kosa On March 21, a panel of the Ninth Circuit held in Yim v. Seattle that...
Eric Ellman
April 9, 2023
Last week, a TroutmanPepper post highlighted a decision from October 2022 in the California Fifth Appellate District holding that the FCRA does...
Eric Ellman
March 13, 2023
In May 2019, the CFPB filed suit in federal court in Utah against “…Progrexion Marketing Inc…and CreditRepair.com Inc.; and against John...
Eric Ellman
January 22, 2023
In a recent article at law360.com (paywall), David Stein, a partner at Covington, makes a troubling observation: The CFPB is “is...
Eric Ellman
January 12, 2023
We reported before on screen scraping litigation in federal court in South Carolina where the ACLU and the NAACP filed a...
Eric Ellman
January 11, 2023
There is a case pending in the Northern District of California that could have broader implications for companies that collect and...
Eric Ellman
January 10, 2023
A guest blog from Frank Conlon, Senior Associate at HudsonCook: On January 4, 2023, a unanimous Second Circuit Court of Appeals...