{"id":3697309,"date":"2026-04-30T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/?p=3697309"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:33:35","slug":"cfpb-eases-reporting-rules-for-small-business-lenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/cfpb\/2026\/cfpb-eases-reporting-rules-for-small-business-lenders\/","title":{"rendered":"CFPB Eases Reporting Rules for Small Business Lenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/complaint\/\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<\/a> (CFPB) has reduced the small business data collection and reporting requirements under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B).<\/p><div\r\n\tid=\"article-paywall-overlay\"\r\n\tclass=\"d-none\"\r\n>\r\n\t<div id=\"article-paywall-content\" class=\"my-4\">\r\n\t\t\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f2699550-o1\" lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" 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The compliance date for the rule is Jan. 1, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>In this final rule, the CFPB amended the credit transactions and financial institutions that are covered, the definition of small business, and the data points that are included, per the agency\u2019s summary of the rule.<\/p>\n<p>According to the summary of the final rule, it will exclude merchant cash advances, agricultural lending and small dollar loans; exclude Farm Credit System (FCS) lenders; raise the origination threshold from 100 to 1,000 covered credit transactions for each of two consecutive years; change the gross annual revenue threshold in the definition of small business from $5 million or less to $1 million or less; and modify the collection of data about business ownership status and demographic data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bureau believes these changes will streamline the rule, reduce complexity for lenders, improve data quality, and advance the purposes of section 1071,\u201d the CFPB said in the summary.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icba.org\/\">Independent Community Bankers of America<\/a> (ICBA) said in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/icba\/status\/2049933067104497851?s=43&amp;t=HX_ju0vgQxqA9hav5Ebegg\">post<\/a> on X that it commends the administration for \u201cheeding community banker concerns and for making needed improvements to help mitigate the negative impact of small-business data collection and reporting requirements.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"pymnt-3208809310\" class=\"pymnt-content pymnt-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 50px;\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"dianomi_context_script\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/js\/contextfeed.js\"><\/script> \r\n<div class=\"dianomi_context\" data-dianomi-context-id=\"4329\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aba.com\/\">American Bankers Association<\/a> (ABA) said in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aba.com\/about-us\/press-room\/press-releases\/ABA-Statement-on-CFPB-Section-1071-Final-Rule?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=org&amp;utm_campaign=advocacy&amp;utm_content=thursday_4.30.26\">statement<\/a> that it, together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasbankers.com\/\">Texas Bankers Association<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rio.bank\/\">Rio Bank<\/a>, mounted a legal challenge against an earlier final rule released by the CFPB in 2023. 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