Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: California Consumer Finance Law - Hot Topics and Recent Developments
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During the first Trump Administration, in response to federal financial agencies adopting a deregulatory approach, several states became more active in the enforcement of consumer financial statutes and regulations to fill...more
On April 2, the California Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee voted to move forward with legislation that would expand the DFPI’s powers to oversee businesses traditionally governed by the CFPB. The bill, SB...more
For lenders in California, the Ides of March of March is a date worth calendaring....more
In the mid 1990s, I had the privilege of serving as Commissioner of Corporations for the State of California. At that time, the DOC was known as a tough securities regulator. However, the times they were a changin'. In...more
Last month, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Khalil “KC” Mohseni, as Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Commissioner Mohseni is not an entirely new to the DFPI. He served as...more
Recently, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Khalil “KC” Mohseni as the Commissioner of the California DFPI, following his role as Chief Deputy Director since 2023. Mohseni’s previous positions included Chief...more
On February 7, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of Khalil “KC” Mohseni as the new Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI). Mohseni has been serving as...more
On February 4, the California DFPI announced a consent order issued against a credit union (respondent) following a significant cybersecurity breach. This breach, a ransomware attack, allegedly led to the shutdown of various...more
On January 14, the DFPI, in collaboration with the FDIC, the Fed, the NCUA and the OCC (collectively, the “agencies”) issued a joint statement addressing the impact of the California wildfires and straight-line winds on...more
In the wake of the Office of Administrative Law’s approval of its registration and reporting requirements for providers of income-based advances, private postsecondary education financing, debt settlement services, and...more
The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation has created an online "Crypto Scam Tracker" that allows the public to by search company name, scam type, or keywords. Scams reported on the Tracker are based...more
When an erstwhile shareholder of First Republic Bank sued the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation for failing to safeguard the "financial soundness and structural integrity" of the bank, the DFPI "took...more
The ink is barely dry on the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s (“DFPI” or the “Department”) newly approved regulation package PRO 01-21, and DFPI has already begun to take steps to implement...more
The California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) authorizes the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation (DFPI) “regarding registration requirements applicable to a covered person engaged in the business of...more
On October 11, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s (DFPI) proposed regulations on direct-to-consumer (i.e., non-employer offered) earned wage...more
A year ago, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills, Assembly Bill 39 and Senate Bill 401, that created the California Digital Financial Assets Law. SB 401 added Section 3902 to the Financial Code to prohibit an operator of...more
California frequently is in the vanguard of consumer financial issues and legislation, foreshadowing trends that may spread to other states. Today’s episode, during which we explore important hot topics and recent...more
On April 25, 2024, California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) released its Annual Report of Activity Under the California Consumer Financial Protection Law for 2023 (“Annual Report”). The Annual...more
Recently, I wrote about the California Office of Administrative Law's rejection of regulations proposed by the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation. These proposed regulations were intended to "implement,...more
Last year, the California legislature enacted a bill, SB 54 (Skinner), that requires a "a venture capital" company to report annually to the Civil Rights Department on its funding determinations related to companies primarily...more
Article 14, Section 12 of the California Constitution requires the Governor to submit a budget to the Legislature by January 10 of each year. The Constitution further required that the budget be accompanied by a budget bill,...more
In March 2023, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation proposed to adopt numerous regulations to "implement, interpret, and make specific registration requirements for covered persons under the...more
As discussed here, in March 2023, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) proposed new regulations under the California Financing Law that would interpret the definition of “loan” to include...more
Last week the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation issued a report of its activities under the California Consumer Financial Protection Law. The California legislature enacted the CCFPL in 2020 for the...more
On January 9, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) issued an order against a consumer financing platform that enables merchants to offer installment contracts to their customers. The...more