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
On Tuesday, August 26, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a proposed rule that would likely decrease the number of nonbanks it supervises under Section 1024(a)(1)(C) of the Consumer Financial Protection...more
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS: • President Trump Signs GENIUS Act Into Law • Joint Statement on Crypto Risk Management • Federal Agencies Propose Rescission of the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule • FDIC Seeks Input...more
On July 15, the Fed published a notice and request for comment in the Federal Register on revisions to its Large Financial Institution (LFI) rating system and the Insurance Supervisory Framework. The rating system governs...more
ESMA has recently recommended notable amendments to the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive, which sets the standards for permissible investments by UCITS funds across Europe. These reforms could redefine permissible investment...more
The UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published consultation paper CP25/2 alongside a new webpage, proposing the revocation of Specific Direction 4 (SD4) and its amendment, SD4a. SD4, introduced following the PSR's 2016...more
On June 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally withdrew 14 proposed rules for investment advisers, broker-dealers and public companies, many of which had been pending for several years. Should the SEC...more
On June 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally withdrew several rule proposals made while Gary Gensler was Chairman that would have applied to investment managers, including, among others, proposals...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published its consultation paper (CP9/25) on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive Organisational Regulation (MiFID Org Reg). The PRA proposes to restate the current...more
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have sent letters to financial regulators asking them to rescind a variety of measures the regulators issued during the Biden Administration....more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an engagement paper which seeks views on increasing or removing the current £100 contactless limit, giving payment service providers (PSPs), consumers and businesses...more
The European Banking Authority has published a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the threshold of activity at which designated credit institutions and Central Securities Depositories (CSDs)...more
On 4 December 2024, the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) issued its consultation paper entitled “Proposed Enhancements to the Insurance Group Supervision Framework,” outlining regulatory updates to strengthen the BMA’s...more
On October 29, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data...more
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more
The proposal seeks to make executive compensation arrangements more sensitive to risk and would require complex risk management programs to ensure compliance....more
On March 18, Nacha, the organization that governs the ACH network, announced that its members approved a new set of rules aimed at reducing the incidence of frauds, such as business email compromise (BEC), that exploit...more
On 12 December 2023, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published the first of two near-final policy statements on the implementation of revisions to the Basel 3 standards, known in the U.K. as Basel 3.1. This...more
A recent OCC report identified key issues facing the federal banking system, including increasing credit risk due to higher interest rates, increasing risk in commercial real estate lending, prolonged inflation, declining...more
The federal banking agencies have jointly issued a final rule that will modify how examiners assess compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Among other changes to the CRA regulations announced on October 24, the...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) has proposed rule changes to increase cyber compliance requirements. DFS has been the leading regulatory force in the cybersecurity industry. ...more
In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to private fund regulation; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) succeeded in validating its “valid-when-made” rulemaking; the...more
In this Issue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is seeking feedback on principles for climate-related financial risk management for large banks; the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is seeking...more