WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSFR) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule to cancel an earlier mandate requiring nonbank covered persons to report final public government orders to a bureau registry. The Bureau finalized the repeal of the Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders (NBR) Rule due to concerns that its costs on regulated entities--which could potentially be shifted to consumers--do not justify the unquantified benefits to consumers. Furt  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSFR) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule to rescind the majority of amendments made to its Rules of Practice for Adjudication Proceedings in 2022 and 2023. This action follows a May 2025 proposal and a careful review of public comments. The final rule seeks to restore authority for dispositive motions and other key procedural decisions to the hearing officer, typically an administrative law judge (ALJ), rather than concentrating that power in t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSFR) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have required supervised nonbanks to register information about their use of form contracts seeking to waive or limit consumer legal protections. The proposal, titled "Registry of Supervised Nonbanks That Use Form Contracts To Impose Terms and Conditions That Seek To Waive or Limit Consumer Legal Protections," was published on Feb. 1, 2023. The Bureau determined that the proposal, w  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration is adopting amendments to the required instrument flight rules (IFR) altitudes and changeover points for several Federal airways, jet routes or direct routes. This regulatory action addresses alterations within the National Airspace System to ensure the safe and efficient use of navigable airspace when aircraft operate under instrument conditions. This is a final rule that amends, suspends, or r  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to replace an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for various Bombardier Inc., Dorval, Quebec, CL-600 airplane models. This action, a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), would keep the requirements of the prior AD but expand the applicability to include additional airplanes that were initially excluded. The purpose of this proposal is to address an unsafe condition related to ai  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration has updated Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) and associated Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures (ODPs) at numerous airports in seven states. The FAA states that these regulatory actions are essential to keep up with changes in the National Airspace System. These modifications are driven by adopting revised criteria, commissioning navigational facilities, adding obst  more