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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
On March 31, the New York Fed published a research paper discussing credit card interest rates and what is behind how they are set. The research explored the relationship between the federal funds rate and the annual...more
Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and Josh Hawley, R-Mo. have introduced bipartisan legislation that could cap credit card interest rates at 10%....more
In the same 2023 bill (House Bill 23-1229) that included Colorado’s DIDMCA opt-out**, Colorado adopted a statute excepting certain “general-purpose credit cards”, as defined, from the state’s limitations on finance charges...more
This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published an Issue Spotlight focusing on consumer complaints relating to credit card rewards programs. The report notes that credit card companies often...more
Rhode Island, Minnesota, and Nevada have joined the list of jurisdictions considering proposals to legislatively opt out of federal interest rate preemption established under the federal Depository Institutions Deregulation...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
The Fed, FDIC, and OCC have issued a “Statement on Reference Rates for Loans” that addresses replacement rates for the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR). LIBOR, which many creditors currently use as the index for...more
Credit cards are central to the financial lives of most American consumers. Credit cards represent a key medium for U.S. consumer spending. In the first six months of 2015 alone, there were some 14.5 billion U.S. general...more
The FTC recently announced that it is sending more than $969,000 to 10,387 customers who were bilked out of their funds through a telemarketing scam operated by Innovative Wealth Builders (IWB)....more
Marketplace lenders and investors that purchase interests in loans originated by banks should pay close attention as it could spawn a host of class action lawsuits if left standing. In a controversial opinion decided on...more