In this episode, Len Suzio and Dean Stockford discuss the CFPB’s November 2025 proposed rulemaking on Section 1071 and explain how it could dramatically scale back the current small business lending data-collection requirements. Len highlights the biggest proposed changes, including moving to a single compliance date of January 1, 2028, sharply reducing the number of required data points, raising the reporting threshold from 100 to 1,000 small business loans in each of the prior two years, narrowing the definition of a small business from $5 million to $1 million in gross annual revenue, and excluding certain products like merchant cash advances, agricultural loans, and transactions of $1,000 or less. He argues that the most significant impact would come not from fewer data fields, but from the much smaller pool of covered lenders and loans, while also warning that the revised definition could create confusion with CRA reporting standards and increase the risk of errors.
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