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 saga of the CFPB’s section 1071 small business data collection and reporting rule continues. Rise Economy, fka California Reinvestment Coalition (Rise), the National Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), the Main Street Alliance...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior and current month covered during the July 2024 webinar....more
Despite facing challenges both from Congress and in court, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) “Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B)” (Small Business Rule) is likely...more
Transition From Trump to Biden May Bring Less Change to Antitrust Enforcement Than Expected - Over the past four years, the DOJ's Antitrust Division and the FTC applied novel theories to increase scrutiny of vertical...more
It’s clear that President Joe Biden’s approach toward consumer protection and financial services enforcement will differ from that of his predecessor. In addition to general housekeeping matters, such as replacing and hiring...more
The CFPB has issued its Spring 2020 Semi-Annual Report to Congress covering the period September 30, 2019 through March 31, 2020. The report represents the CFPB’s fourth semi-annual report under Director Kraninger’s...more
The CFPB has filed an answer in the lawsuit filed in May 2019 in a California federal district court by the California Reinvestment Coalition, the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, and two individual...more
The CFPB has published its Spring 2019 rulemaking agenda as part of the Spring 2019 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which is coordinated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). ...more
The CFPB has issued a new annual report covering its fair lending activities during 2017. Since Mick Mulvaney did not become Acting Director until the end of November 2017, the fair lending activities described in the report...more
During Richard Cordray’s tenure as CFPB director, it began to look like we were heading toward an era of much more aggressive application of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to small business lending. ...more
On May 7, 2018, at the Practicing Law Institute’s 23rd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute in Chicago, panel members Kristen Donoghue, the CFPB’s top enforcement official, and Allison Brown, from the Bureau’s Office...more
In an email to CFPB staff, Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s designee as CFPB Acting Director, has indicated that he plans to make changes to the CFPB’s organizational structure to best enable the CFPB to fulfill its...more