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The Texas House and Senate introduced House Bill 700 and Senate Bill 2677 to regulate commercial sales-based financing transactions. The proposed legislation would impose standardized disclosure requirements, require broker...more
What Happened? As we have previously apprised you, California, New York, Utah, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, and Kansas have enacted laws that require certain commercial financing “providers” to furnish certain...more
What Happened: In a little-noticed development, eight states have enacted legislation that requires specific disclosures for commercial non-real estate secured financing transactions....more
Missouri is now part of the growing list of states who have introduced commercial finance disclosure requirements. Additionally, the statute – Section 427.300 of Missouri Senate Bill 1359 – contains substantial requirements,...more
A bill before the New York State Assembly would, if passed, have major implications for a variety of financing transactions in the Empire State. Titled the End Loan Sharking Act, Assembly Bill 9585 would subject a variety of...more
On October 7, the California governor signed SB 33 to, among other things, continue to require covered providers offering commercial loans to disclose the total cost of financing expressed as an annualized rate indefinitely....more
Compliance with the requirements of New York Financial Services Law sections 801-811 (the Commercial Finance Disclosure Law or “NYCFDL”) as implemented by the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) becomes...more
Our Financial Services & Products Group illuminates three new state laws in Georgia, Florida, and Connecticut requiring provider disclosures in commercial financing transactions....more
On June 23, the Florida governor signed HB 1353 (the “Act”), creating the Florida Commercial Financing Disclosure Law and imposing several requirements on commercial financing providers and brokers. The Act defines a...more
On May 1, the Georgia governor signed SB 90 to, among other things, require disclosures in connection with commercial financing transactions. The amendments modify the existing state Fair Business Practices Act and apply to...more
If you are a nonbank finance company that makes commercial loans of $2.5 million or less in New York or represent such a company, this Holland & Knight alert is for you. There has been a growing concern expressed over the...more
On February 1, 2023, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) adopted final regulations relating to New York’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL), which requires providers of commercial financing,...more
Utah has followed California and New York by enacting its own Truth in Lending-like commercial financing disclosure law, but with an additional twist—Utah’s new law has a registration requirement. On March 24, Utah Governor...more
Earlier this month, Maryland State Senator Benjamin K. Kramer introduced Senate Bill 825 titled “Consumer Credit - Commercial Financing Transactions.” Although not obvious from the bill’s title, it contains legislation...more
In the absence of a federal law requiring disclosures be provided to small businesses, regulators in California in 2018, and now New York, have jumped into the void. With the Enactment of the New York Commercial Finance...more
On December 23, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law S 5470–B, which requires consumer-like disclosures for “commercial financing” transactions of $500,000 or less. New York’s commercial financial law (NYCFL)...more
A group of small businesses and their individual owners have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a New York federal district court against online lender Kabbage, Inc. that alleges Kabbage engaged in a “rent-a-charter”...more
On September 30, 2018, California’s Governor signed into law Senate Bill No. 1235, requiring consumer-like disclosures to be provided to recipients of certain business-purpose financial services products (“commercial...more