Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Understanding the Development and Regulation of Buy Now, Pay Later Products — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Enhancing Card Partnerships and Compliance: A Conversation With Matthew Goldman — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: CFPB’s Withdrawal of Informal Guidance Sparks New Litigation Dynamics – The Consumer Finance Podcast
Sunday Book Review: August 10, 2025, The More Books from The Ethicsverse Library Edition
AI Today in 5: August 6, 2025, The Rethinking Compliance Episode
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
Suluki Secrets: Behind the Scenes of Reasonable Investigations — FCRA Focus Podcast
The Current State of the Holder Rule: Friend or Foe? — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Avoiding CCO Liability
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 55 – The From Worse to Worser Edition
Balch’s Consumer Finance Compass: How Standing Can Make or Break Certification for Class Action Lawsuits in Debt Collection
Top challenges with Compliance Management
Sittenfeld v. United States – Campaign Contributions as Crimes?
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) is taking a significant step to modify its supervisory approach to nonbanks by publishing a proposed rule advancing a more stringent definition of “risks to consumers”...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to restart the open banking rulemaking process; the UK FCA's publication of a policy statement with final...more
The banking plaintiffs in the suit challenging the CFPB’s open banking rule (“Rule”) have asked a federal court to delay the compliance date of the Rule, contending that even though the Trump Administration has said it was...more
On July 18, America’s Credit Unions sent a letter to the Honorable Kyle Hauptman, Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), urging the agency to initiate rulemaking that would allow credit unions to take...more
On July 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced its intention to delay the effective date of the final rule imposing anti-money laundering (AML) obligations on...more
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law S. 1582, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the “GENIUS Act” or the “Act”). The Act covers payment stablecoins[1]—a relatively new form...more
Today marks a historic milestone in U.S. digital asset policy. The President signed the GENIUS Act into law following its bipartisan passage by 308-122 in the House on July 17 and 68-30 in the Senate on June 17. The GENIUS...more
On June 18, the CFPB published a final rule in the Federal Register rescinding a previous rule that specified how the agency issues rules and when those rules are considered issued. Effective June 18, the final rule rescinds...more
Having previously announced that it was withdrawing its Buy Now, Pay Later rule, the CFPB recently said that it does not intend to issue a revised rule....more
The financial services industry generally, and data aggregators specifically, have watched intently as the Trump administration has altered the course of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or “Bureau”), in an...more
On May 23, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky received a status report from the defendants, the CFPB and Russell Vought, stating that the Bureau has determined the Section 1033 rule to be unlawful...more
On May 14, the CFPB issued a proposed rule to rescind recent amendments to its nonbank supervisory program. The amendments were designed to expand and formalize the Bureau’s process for subjecting nonbank covered persons to...more
On May 13, the CFPB published a Federal Register notice withdrawing its proposed rule to rescind the amendments it adopted to the Rules of Practice for Adjudication Proceedings, amended in 2022 and 2023. As previously covered...more
Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a proposed rule to rescind its previous regulation requiring nonbank entities to report certain agency and court orders to a Bureau registry....more
The CFPB will not make enforcement of its Buy Now, Pay Later rule a priority, according to a recent statement....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) announced the withdrawal of 67 regulatory guidance documents, including interpretive rules, policy statements, and advisory opinions that have been issued since the...more
The acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to winnow out regulatory tools used by agency staff under the prior administration. Just a month after revoking certain interpretative rules and...more
The House Financial Services Committee on March 5 took the first step toward repealing the CFPB’s overdraft rule, adopting a resolution under the Congressional Review Act. ...more
The Chairmen of the House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over banking issues have introduced Congressional Review Act resolutions to nullify the CFPB’s overdraft rule. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep....more
On February 13, Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate introduced a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the CFPB’s final rule related to overdraft lending fees. The CFPB’s overdraft...more
On February 3, a trade association representing the financial services industry sent a letter to new CFPB leadership commending it for the agency-wide pause of all rulemaking, litigation and other activities and suggesting a...more
Seventeen financial services trade groups are calling on the CFPB to abandon its plan to amend rules under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to vastly expand the scope of the FCRA by redefining what a “consumer report” is...more
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a letter addressed to the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee on motor finance commission specifically addressing the court of appeal judgement in Johnson v...more
On January 20, President Trump issued a memorandum instituting a regulatory freeze pending review. This action, a common practice for new administrations, directs federal agencies to halt any new rulemaking until agency heads...more
The Short Selling Regulations 2025 were made and published on legislation.gov.uk, alongside an explanatory memorandum. The regulations replace assimilated law (including the U.K. Short Selling Regulation) and establish a new...more