Members of the Federalist Society’s Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group Executive Committee provided an update on recent important activity at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Recent developments included a CFPB study on the Military Lending Act, activity at the FDIC related to Operation Chokepoint, the Independent Community Bankers Association survey of the effect of CFPB regulations on residential mortgage lending, and also a recent Harvard study about the effect of the Dodd-Frank Act on community banks. -- Featuring: Hon. Wayne A. Abernathy, Executive VP for Financial Institutions Policy and Regulatory Affairs, American Bankers Association and Prof. Todd J. Zywicki, Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law