AI Today in 5: August 18, 2025, The AI Music Episode
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
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
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Explore the Impact of Point-of-Sale Finance in Our Upcoming Series — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Regulatory Rollback: Impact on Industry of CFPB's Withdrawal of Fair Lending and UDAAP Informal Guidance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Tenant Tales and Reseller Realities: Inside the FCRA Arena With Eric Ellman — FCRA Focus Podcast
Under the Hood: Exploring the CFPB's 2025 Focus — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Driven by Data: Auto Finance Trends Uncovered - Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The Next FCRA Frontier: Identity Theft and CFPB Updates — FCRA Focus Podcast
Shifting Gears: Adapting to Regulatory Changes in Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Unlocking the Secrets of Reverse Mortgages — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Dialing In: The TCPA and Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
1071 Rule Status — The Consumer Finance Podcast
International News Spotlight on Private Equity and Private Wealth with Merrick White
International News Spotlight on Private Equity with Aymen Mahmoud
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 146: Listen and Learn -- Mortgages and Priority
Healthcare Headlines: Episode 8 – Healthcare Lending Deal Landscape Trends and Forecasts for the Future
Recently, the governor of Texas signed HB 700 into law, amending Title 5 of the Texas Finance Code to establish new disclosure and registration requirements for certain commercial sales-based financing transactions. Under the...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
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
Missouri is the latest state to enact a disclosure requirement for commercial financing, joining the growing number of states that have done the same. California, New York, Utah, and Virginia were the first states to pass...more
The financing of hotels and resorts requires balancing the borrower’s need for flexibility to successfully operate the hotel against the lender’s desire to prevent cash leakage should conditions related to the borrower’s...more
Providers of commercial financing that are subject to the New York State Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL) must provide disclosures to potential recipients of commercial financing at the time a specific offer of...more
In December 2022, California’s new commercial lending disclosure law and complimentary regulations went into effect, leading the way for other states to follow. The new California law imposes disclosure requirements in...more
In recent years, hotel sponsors and developers have increasingly turned to alternative capital sources, like preferred equity, to finance and reposition their existing assets and fund new acquisition and development...more
We reported last year on New York’s newly enacted commercial finance disclosure law and the legislature’s quick pivot thereafter, expanding the law’s reach to all loans up to $2,500,000 - a change from the previous limitation...more
Term sheets and commitment letters are documents frequently used by lenders to outline the terms of a potential financing. However, these two documents differ with respect to what is required of, and whether the terms are...more
California requires persons who are engaged in the business of making loans to be licensed under the Finance Lenders Law. Cal. Fin. Code § 22000 et seq. This had been an issue for venture capital funds that extended bridge...more