Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Understanding the Development and Regulation of Buy Now, Pay Later Products — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: CFPB’s Withdrawal of Informal Guidance Sparks New Litigation Dynamics – The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Road to Regulation: Vehicle Service Contracts Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Unpacking Leases and RTO Models — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Current State of the Holder Rule: Friend or Foe? — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Balch’s Consumer Finance Compass: How Standing Can Make or Break Certification for Class Action Lawsuits in Debt Collection
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Banking on Lending Models — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: The Great Debate of Loans vs. Credit Sales — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Explore the Impact of Point-of-Sale Finance in Our Upcoming Series — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Welcoming a New Payment Pro: Jason Cover Joins the Payments Pros Podcast — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Shifting Gears: Adapting to Regulatory Changes in Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Unlocking the Secrets of Reverse Mortgages — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: How to Use the Restatement of Consumer Contracts - A Guide for Judges
Mock Jury Exercises: Enhancing Litigation Strategy in Consumer Financial Services Cases — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Requiem for the Rules: The Rise and Fall of the Junk Fee and CARS Rules — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) faces uncertainty, state attorneys general (state AGs) are poised to fill the enforcement gap in consumer financial protection. With the CFPB’s future in question, state AGs...more
Ein Jahr nach Inkrafttreten der neuen EU-Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie (Richtlinie 2023/2225) im November 2023: Wann kommt die Umsetzung, was wird geregelt und wie sind die Reaktionen der Wirtschaft? Die...more
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has further enhanced consumer protection by issuing a circular prescribing a 7-day cooling-off period for customers to reconsider credit products....more
Checking in on what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has been up to for the last month, in case you missed it (and with some commentary)...more
The National Consumer Law Center is asking the CFPB, by way of a petition, for rulemaking that is long on policy arguments but woefully short on legal support, as we note below, to define residential leases as “credit” under...more
On July 18, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB” or “Bureau”) proposed an interpretive rule that states (1) EWA products fall under the definition of “credit” under the Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”) and...more
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued a proposed interpretive rule opining that earned wage access (EWA) products — whether provided through employer partnerships or marketed directly to...more
In a major win for the CFPB, in CFPB v. Townstone Financial, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Circuit) recently held that the Regulation B provision prohibiting discrimination under the Equal...more
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed House Bill (HB) 2247 into law, bringing significant changes to the Kansas Mortgage Business Act and the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC). The changes brought about by HB 2247 will largely...more
On March 26, 2024, the President of Mexico published the reform passed by the Mexican Congress to the General Law of Negotiable Instruments and Credit Transactions (Ley General de Títulos y Operaciones de Crédito, “LGTOC”),...more
Recently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued its first report on the results of its updated Terms of Credit Card Plans survey. The report found that for the first half of 2023, small banks and...more
In recent years, earned wage access (EWA) – an innovative technology that enables workers to access their own, already earned wages without having to wait for payday – has rapidly become a table stakes employee benefit. By...more
For purposes of general applicability of the Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z to credit transactions and the Consumer Leasing Act and Regulation M for lease transactions, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB")...more
On November 13, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced increased dollar thresholds used to determine whether certain consumer credit and lease transactions in 2024 are...more
On November 2, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a report on the community reinvestment laws of seven states (Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, West Virginia), and...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) Committee on Bank Supervision (CBS) recently issued its annual Bank Supervision Operating Plan for FY 2024, which sets forth the OCC’s supervision priorities and...more
What’s New? A new European Union (EU) Directive on Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers (the Directive) requires investors who acquire, manage, or sell non-performing loans (NPLs), issued by EU-authorised credit...more
On June 14, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published the spring edition of its Semiannual Risk Perspective, which discusses key issues facing banks. The good news is that the federal banking system saw...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s adopting release for its small business data collection and reporting rule goes beyond that rule by including a discussion deeming merchant cash advances to be “credit” more...more
On January 23, the Colorado attorney general announced that it sent a study examining the availability of consumer lending in the state to the Colorado General Assembly....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) released a regulatory Circular providing guidance regarding the use of “complex algorithms” to assess whether a consumer should be extended credit. Often referred to as “black...more
Payday Lending Market Investigation Order 2015: CMA summary of borrowing template - The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a template of a summary of borrowing statement, to be used by lenders to comply...more
If the current pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we depend on each other for in-person contact more than we thought. This is especially true for unbanked and underbanked consumers seeking financial services....more