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Navigating New York City's New Debt Collection Rules — The Consumer Finance Podcast
First Republic Executives Fail in Attempt to Recover Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan Assets
Hot Topic: Key Issues for Nonprofit Creditors Dealing With Distressed Businesses
New Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act Implications and the 2023 Congressional Outlook - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Wire Fraud Scams: What You Need to Know - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Third Circuit Hands Down Decision in FCRA Pay Status Cases - FCRA Focus Podcast
What Happens When a Cryptocurrency Platform Goes Bankrupt?
The New Value Defense
Legally Qualified: A Look at Recent Trends that May Affect Bankruptcies and Restructuring in the Year Ahead
The Critical Nature of Bankruptcy Dates and Deadlines
The “Catch-22” of Preference Law
Common Benefits Issues in Bankruptcy
International News Spotlight on Private Equity with Aymen Mahmoud
Credit Eco to Go Podcast: Competing for the Attention of the Consumer
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - The Results are In: Consumers Really Do Respond Better to Digital Communications
Repossessions and Bankruptcy Post-COVID, Post-Fulton [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 26]
Don’t Wait! What Businesses Should do at the First Sign of Financial Trouble
Nota Bene Podcast Episode 132: 2021 Business Bankruptcy Trends with Ori Katz
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - Credit Reporting: Truth be Told
LEVEL-SETTING - The banking industry finds itself in the early stages of a transformation. Existing balance sheets have been shaped by more than a decade of low interest rates that fueled asset appreciation, muted...more
Yesterday, as I was writing this article the news broke about the regulators deciding they intend to rescind the 2023 CRA rule. My first reaction was to toss this article in the “trash” folder. But upon further reflection I...more
Private Credit is a hot – if not the hottest – asset class right now. This asset class has a nexus to a number of Cadwalader’s practices from fund finance to capital markets and beyond. To that end, last week we attended the...more
Please join us as we discuss the intricacies of the creditor-borrower relationship and best practices to ensure a successful and profitable lending partnership....more
A federal court has rejected an attempt by former First Republic Bank employees to recover assets held in a rabbi trust that funded deferred compensation benefits. In Harrington v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the...more
2023 and the start of 2024 presented challenging economic conditions to the market, with debt costs at a historic high. Following a series of increases over the last two years, the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate is...more
In another move highlighting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (the “Bureau” or “CFPB”) continued focus on the payments space, the CFPB has issued a new report finding consumers are encountering numerous problems...more
In the current economic climate, it is important that lenders understand how they can enforce security and debt claims, to help in assessing options in the event of default by their customers, and when structuring new...more
The Directive (EU) 2021/2167 sets out a harmonized regulatory framework for services in relation to non-performing loans and has to be implemented by Member States by 29 December 2023. In Germany, the draft bill of the Credit...more
The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more
Last month, I attended the 28th Annual Factoring Conference presented by the International Factoring Association (IFA) in Boston. This is the world's largest conference of its kind, dedicated solely to banks, lenders,...more
The draft law on external management was submitted to the Russian Parliament and differs considerably from the previous version. The new draft provides for the establishment of a special interdepartmental commission that will...more
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has recently been active in adopting secondary legislation clarifying and implementing presidential decrees on cross-border transactions. Such legislation imposes new restrictions...more
An insolvency moratorium first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic applies to nearly all Russian legal entities, individuals, and sole entrepreneurs, and bans the commencement of insolvency proceedings against Russian...more
On February 23, eight federal agencies including the CFPB, FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve Board, NCUA, HUD, DOJ, and FHFA issued an interagency statement to remind creditors of the ability under the ECOA and Regulation B to...more
[co-authors: Amelie Hopkins, and Collin Grier] The year 2021 started with the hope of COVID-19 vaccines and a return to (relative) normalcy, only to conclude with new variants that presented new challenges and extended...more
The challenges facing traditional banks over the last 12 months have proved to be golden opportunities for private lending. Aymen Mahmoud has more on private equity and private credit. ...more
On November 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Consumer Credit Fairness Act (the Act) into law. The Act will likely have substantial impact on debt collection lawsuits filed by creditors or debt collectors in...more
Nexus 6 is an android. Smarter, stronger and faster than any human being. At least in the film version, which Philip Dick was not entirely happy with. The cinematic adaptation of his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric...more
IRS Chief Tells Elizabeth Warren: More Transparent Bank Data Can Fight Tax Evasion - "Rettig, a Trump administration holdover, touted a provision in the American Families Plan that would require banks to report on their...more
So what happened at the CFPB in the past month? Bite #10 - Trade groups submitted a letter to the House Subcommittee supporting HR 4773 - Nearly 30 trade groups, led by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA), submitted...more
In This Issue. In a move that gives him the opportunity to put his stamp on housing policy and the potential overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, President Biden replaced the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency...more
Stung recently by the collapse of Greensill Capital and Archegos Capital Mgmt (the latter alone which cost it more than $5.5 billion), Credit Suisse recently “dissolved a longstanding personal lending relationship” with Masa...more
Over the last decade, as more and more states have enacted laws governing guaranteed automobile protection products, compliance with state GAP laws has been a regular topic of discussion between consumer financial services...more
On this episode of the Credit Eco to Go Podcast hosted by Joann Needleman: A financial services system must work for everyone. But how is that goal achieved? In 1968, President Johnson formed the National Commission on...more