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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
Welcome to Chalk Talk, your legal playbook for the ever-evolving sports industry. Each month, our Sports Law team will draw up the X's and O's behind the legal, policy, and regulatory issues impacting your business. We'll...more
RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk are joined by Orrick partner Jedd Bellman, former Maryland Assistant Commissioner of Financial Regulation, for a deep dive into the evolving role of state regulators in...more
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies with values tied to fiat currencies or other assets, and are often said to be “pegged to” a single or a basket of fiat currents and/or other assets....more
The Bermuda Monetary Authority ("BMA") proposes a new Payments Services Act ("PSA") to replace the Money Service Business Act 2016 to establish a clear, risk-based framework for Payment Service Providers ("PSPs") operating in...more
Following Nevada and Missouri in 2023, Wisconsin has become the third state (and the first in 2024) to enact a law that establishes a financial services oversight regime for earned wage access services, also known as...more
On September 25, 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 908, enacting the Debt Collection Licensing Act (DCLA). The DCLA will take effect on January 1, 2022, but proposed regulations will begin to roll out soon. ...more
In a 9-3 vote earlier this month, the California Assembly Banking and Finance Committee approved legislation requiring a license for debt collectors and debt buyers, entitled the Debt Collection Licensing Act (SB 908) (DCLA)....more
In November 2018, Missouri voters passed Amendment 2, setting in motion state regulated medical marijuana. Over the last month, the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS) began approving license applications...more
The New York Department of Financial Services has announced the creation of a new Consumer Protection Task Force within the NYDFS. ...more
The NMLS Reinstatement Period began on January 2, 2020, and will end on February 29, 2020. This period allows individuals and companies that failed to renew their licenses by December 31 to request renewal. ...more
The NMLS renewal period for licensees began last week on November 1 and continues through December 31. For Nevada licensees, according to an update from the Nevada Division of Mortgage Lending...more
South Dakota Adds Non-Residential Mortgage Lender Licenses to NMLS - South Dakota added its Non-Residential Mortgage Lender License to NMLS on July 15, 2019. ...more
Minnesota has revised its Residential Mortgage Originator and Servicer Licensing Act to provide an exemption from residential mortgage originator licensure requirements for a "manufactured home dealer" and "manufactured home...more
Both Virginia and Utah have enacted legislation to permit temporary authority to operate as a mortgage loan originator in their respective states pursuant to the SAFE Act....more
North Dakota has modified the surety bond requirements under the Money Brokers Act. Presently, the law requires a surety bond in an amount not less than $25,000. N.D. Cent. Code Section 13-04.1-04.01(1). Effective August 1,...more
The North Carolina Office of the Commissioner of Banks recently updated its FAQs to specifically address the need for a Servicer license for entities that merely hold mortgage servicing rights. ...more
For those agencies that permit license reinstatement, the reinstatement period will run until midnight Eastern Time on February 28, 2019....more
A reminder that the NMLS license renewal period opened on November 1, and that there is an Annual Renewal Information section on the NMLS Resource Center website with detailed information regarding deadlines, requirements,...more
We have been following closely efforts by state regulators, state legislatures and the courts to restrict, or in some cases prohibit, bank model lending programs, so the recent guidance from the Vermont Department of...more
Effective immediately, Illinois has amended the Residential Mortgage License Act to exempt any entity engaged solely in providing independent contractor loan processing services through the sponsoring of individual licensees....more
The Washington Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) amended its regulations under the Consumer Loan Act, effective September 1, 2018. Changes are made to a variety of provisions, including licensing coverage and various...more
The North Carolina Commissioner of Banks Office has begun receiving new and converted Electronic Surety Bonds (ESB) through NMLS for its mortgage broker, mortgage lender, and mortgage servicer licenses....more
Effective August 1, 2018, the Minnesota Department of Commerce will adopt the National State MLO Test with Uniform State Content. Mortgage loan originator license applicants will no longer be required to take and pass a...more
Effective June 1, 2018, the West Virginia Division of Financial Institutions will adopt the National State MLO Test with Uniform State Content. Mortgage loan originator license applicants will no longer be required to take...more
The Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities recently published Frequently Asked Questions to clarify its new mortgage servicer licensing requirements. ...more