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Effective August 1, 2025, Louisiana will subject revenue-based financing transactions to new disclosure requirements, joining the still-growing ranks of states passing commercial finance disclosure laws in recent years. But...more
A bill that would substantially expand solar and home improvement financing requirements is making its way through the California legislature. Senate Bill 784 (“SB 784”) passed the California Senate on June 2, and is now...more
In this special crossover edition of the Payments Pros and Consumer Finance podcasts, Carlin McCrory and Jason Cover are joined by their colleague Caleb Rosenberg to explore the evolving landscape of small business financing....more
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
Last month, the Texas legislature introduced two companion bills, S.B. No. 2677 and H.B. No. 700, to regulate sales-based commercial financing. For purposes of the proposed legislation, sales-based financing is a transaction...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
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - As part of its Climate Accountability Package, California passed a law last year that creates disclosure requirements related to greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions for thousands of U.S. companies,...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
On June 10, 2024, the Connecticut Department of Banking (“Department”) issued guidance (the “Guidance”) to give direction on required consumer-like disclosures in certain commercial financing offers....more
Since 2018, seven states—California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New York, Utah, and Virginia—have enacted laws requiring specific disclosures in commercial financing transactions. Three of those enactments came in 2023,...more
Recently, the California DFPI announced it was granted a summary judgment by a federal court to uphold the DFPI’s commercial financing disclosure requirements applicable to small businesses as implemented by SB 1235,...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 28, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Senate Bill 1032 entitled An Act Requiring Certain Financing Disclosures, which requires certain providers of commercial financing to make various disclosures and...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
The State of New York passed a law in December 2020 – the Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (“CFDL”), with an effective date of June 2021 – that prescribed required disclosures for commercial finance transactions that are...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
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued final regulations implementing the state’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL) which requires consumer-like disclosures for “commercial financing”...more
Small business financers and brokers (“providers”) active in New York are officially on notice to finalize their preparations to comply with New York’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (“CFDL”) by August 1, 2023, the new...more
On February 1, NYDFS adopted a final regulation (23 NYCRR 600) outlining disclosure requirements for commercial financing transactions in the state. Under the state’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL)—which was enacted...more
In the third in our series on the California Commercial Financing Disclosure Regulations, we focus on the disclosure requirements for merchant cash advances (MCAs)....more