Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Debate About The Need, If Any, For a Federal Charter for Non-Banks Engaged in the Payments Business
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Close Look at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Proposal to Supervise Large Nonbank Providers of Digital Wallets and Payment Apps
In The Cross-Hairs? Protecting Your Company Against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Investigations and Investors' Mortgage Buyback Claims
An Illinois federal district court judge presiding over a revived redlining case denied a joint motion to vacate a 2024 voluntary settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and a Chicago-based non-bank...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to redefine its priorities, and among the many policies targeted for change, the “Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders”...more
The latest edition of the Payments Docket, our roundup of key litigation and enforcement involving the payments industry, features why the CFPB’s open banking rule is under fire, a convenience fee that steals your lunch...more
The European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending...more
NAV Financings and Preferred Equity: What Are They and Why Are They Used? In a changing economic landscape, fund sponsors are increasingly conscious of the need to shore up liquidity, whether to take advantage of the...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved on Dec. 15, 2020, a final rule that clarifies how it intends to treat applications to insure an industrial bank or industrial loan company (each, an ILC) or to merge...more
On 5th July 2018, Hogan Lovells hosted its 5th annual Africa Forum themed "Africa Fit for the Future". One of the key sector sessions was led by Shalini Bhuchar, an asset finance partner, who chaired a panel of leading...more
The relationship between certain peer-to-peer or marketplace lending platforms and the banks who actually make the loans to consumers leads to the often-debated question of “Who is the true lender?” Recent court decisions...more
The state of California amended its Finance Lenders Law in an effort to help individuals obtain access to affordable, credit-building small dollar loans. The new law makes exempt from Finance Lenders Law a nonprofit...more
A new decree expands the types of entities allowed to provide loans beyond banks and financial intermediaries. Introduction - The Italian Government enacted law decree No. 91, of June 24, 2014, published on...more
The California Department of Business Oversight (“CDBO”) has proposed to narrow a long-standing interpretation of a statutory licensing exemption for certain lenders under the California Finance Lenders Law (“CFLL”)1. The...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has adopted a final rule setting forth the procedures it will use to supervise nonbanks engaged in conduct that poses risk to consumers....more
On April 15, the Fed requested comment on a proposed rule to establish an annual assessment for bank holding companies and savings and loan companies with $50 billion or greater in total consolidated assets, as well as for...more