Enhancing Card Partnerships and Compliance: A Conversation With Matthew Goldman — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What Banking Leaders Need to Know About the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling That the CFPB’s Funding Mechanism is Constitutional Part I
Exploring the Potential of Georgia's Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank Charter — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Understanding the Credit Card Competition Act a/k/a Durbin 2.0
Analyzing the Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 - Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
Rewards Programs and Co-Brand Relationships Between Credit Card Issuers and Merchants - The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB’s Increasingly Active Interest in Credit Reporting - FCRA Focus Podcast
As of April 1, 2025, all merchants and third-party service providers (TPSPs) involved in processing credit or debit card payments must fully adhere to the enhanced security requirements outlined in the Payment Card Industry...more
Amid recent technological advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, on January 17, 2025, the CFPB issued its Winter 2025 Supervisory Highlights: Advanced Technologies Special Edition. This edition of...more
On Friday, January 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed an interpretive rule that could significantly broaden the scope of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) to encompass a wide range of digital...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior and current month covered during the November 2024 webinar....more
In December 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) rolled out a series of important measures aimed at addressing potential misconduct in the credit card industry, improving consumer protections, and promoting...more
On October 22, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its long-anticipated Open Banking Rule (the Open Banking Rule) under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act, fundamentally reshaping the data-sharing...more
On October 22, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized its long-anticipated rule implementing Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The 594-page final rule arrives nearly one year after the CFPB’s...more
The FTC often initiates enforcement actions seeking to hold companies responsible for consumer injury caused by others or in which they directly participated in the misconduct. FTC CID and investigation attorney previously...more
purred by increased online and mobile app shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) market has experienced higher growth and popularity as an innovative consumer finance offering, particularly for...more
A critical deadline of March 31, 2025 is upcoming for the full implementation of the new requirements contained in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 4.0....more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the June 2024 webinar....more
Buy Now, Pay Later (“BNPL”) payments are often presented by retailers and BNPL lenders to consumers as an alternative to traditional credit card payments. After close scrutiny of industry practices for several years, the...more
The SEC has issued a controversial 886-page final rule imposing climate-related disclosure requirements on publicly traded companies, including banking organizations, which will require them to include certain climate-related...more
As the Kansas City Chiefs were winning the big game, New York made a big change to its law governing credit card surcharges. While definitions of the term may vary, a "surcharge" is generally understood to mean a higher...more
Effective April 15, 2023, Visa has implemented a reduction in the permissible merchant surcharge to the lower of: (a) the merchant discount rate (MDR) for the applicable credit card or (b) 3%. The MDR is the fee charged to...more
US Senators Ask SoFi About Its Banking Law Compliance = “Four U.S. senators have signed a letter to SoFi Technologies CEO Anthony Noto expressing concerns about the online personal finance company and online bank’s digital...more
With a new administration incoming at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the country turning the corner in its fight against the pandemic, the CFPB has begun to flex its regulatory muscles once again. From...more
Visa and Mastercard Delay Hike to Interchange Fees—US and UK Developments Visa and Mastercard announced on March 16 that they have postponed the scheduled plan to boost interchange fees, i.e., fees that U.S. merchants pay...more
On December 30, 2020, the CFPB approved Synchrony Bank’s application to offer a “dual-feature credit card” (DFCC) under the CFPB’s Compliance Assistance Sandbox (CAS) policy. According to Synchrony’s application, the DFCC...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 16 (August 20, 2020) - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined Capital One USD 80 million for inadequate data controls leading to a 2019 data breach and for failing to fix...more
Not to say, I told you so, but around the same time that the Capital One data breach occurred, I was reminding clients that nearly half of all significant data breaches or cyber-incidents occur because of internal actors. ...more
The CFPB continued to be active in the consumer payments space in 2018, while the Federal Reserve and market participants considered the future of payment processing, including the development of faster payment systems....more
You know it is going to be a very bad day when, as a company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), you receive a letter asking the following, “Specifically, the committee should thoroughly examine this issue, including: How it is...more
Many of the largest retailer data security breaches have been caused or enabled by the acts or omissions of retailers’ vendors, such as the widely publicized incident at Target Corporation. Several such breaches occurred...more
When the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its study on the use of pre-dispute arbitration (PDA) clauses earlier this year, many expected the CFPB to propose a ban on all PDAs in contracts for consumer...more