Navigating the NYDFS' Cybersecurity Guidance on AI — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Will Resiliency Carry the Digital Asset Sector Through 2024: State-Level Developments — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Climate Risk, the emerging risk
The NYDFS Updates Its Stringent Cybersecurity Regulations. Is This a Bellwether of Coming Industry Change? - The Consumer Finance Podcast
How the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) Regulates Virtual Currency, a Close Look with Special Guest Kaitlin Asrow, Executive Deputy Superintendent of Research and Innovation, DFS
Compliance Into The Weeds - DFS Fines Carnival Cruise Lines for Cyber Failures
Compliance into the Weeds: DFS First Cyber Case-First American Title
Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – Regulators step up pressure to implement LIBOR transition plans
Your Cyber Minute: State influences bring a new dawn of cyber regulations
Your Cyber Minute: Compliance with the Proposed NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation
Your Cyber Minute: Harriet Pearson and Greg Lisa on the Proposed NYDFS Cyber Security Regulation
A new law in New York took effect on June 11, 2025, requiring banking organizations, licensed lenders, and mortgage bankers provide a disclosure pamphlet titled “What Mortgage Applicants Need to Know” (the “Pamphlet”)....more
While uncertainty continued to loom over the CFPB, the states did not take a spring break. Instead, we saw an eye-popping settlement from NY DFS involving BSA/AML claims. And both republican and democratic AGs continued to...more
On December 17, NYDFS introduced a new regulation, NEW 3 NYCRR 120, Compliance with Banking Law Section 28-bb, which would require nonbank mortgage bankers in New York State to collect and report data related to home loans to...more
Recently, NYDFS released its 2024 Annual Minority Mortgage Lending Report which provided an analysis of mortgage lending activities in the State of New York, with a focus on minorities’ access to mortgage loans and marking...more
What Happened? On December 21, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) published an 18-page guidance document (the “Guidance”) on managing material, financial and operational risks due to climate...more
As we reflect on the previous year and look toward the new year, we thought you’d appreciate our top 20 most-read Consumer Finance ABstract posts from 2023...more
A&B ABstract: Effective on approval by Governor Kathy Hochul on December 30, 2022, New York Assembly Bill 7737b – the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (the “Act”) became law....more
The law does not take effect until mid-2022 and is subject to regulations to be promulgated by the New York Department of Financial Services. On December 1, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill...more
Expansion of CRA coverage. On November 1, New York Governor Hochul signed into law amendments (S.5246-A/A.6247-A) to the New York Community Reinvestment Act (NYCRA) that expand the NYCRA’s coverage to non-depository mortgage...more
On August 31, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued an industry letter to all supervised mortgage lending institutions and their affiliates on preventing sexual orientation discrimination in mortgage...more
In March 2017, New York State’s Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) implemented the nation’s first cybersecurity rules requiring all regulated entities, such as banks, insurers, financial businesses, and regulated...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has announced its second regulatory enforcement action against a regulated entity (a New York licensed mortgage banker and loan servicer) for violating NYDFS’s...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced its second enforcement action and first settlement under its cybersecurity regulations (23 NYCRR Part 500). At issue was a licensed mortgage lender's failure...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Hunt Mortgage, a licensed mortgage banker, to address the DFS’s findings that there was a “demonstrable lack of...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a report on February 4, 2021, detailing its investigation of the mortgage lending market in the Buffalo metropolitan area. The report includes findings about a...more
On September 1, 2020 the NYDFS published Industry Guidance to the Chief Executive Officers or Equivalents or New York Regulated Mortgage Lenders and Services regarding the unlawful pass through to the mortgagor (“Borrower”)...more
A&B ABstract: On September 1, 2020, the Deputy Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), issued guidance (the “Guidance”) to New York State regulated mortgage lenders and servicers...more
In many cases, borrowers and lenders are working together to weather this crisis. A forbearance agreement is often the first step—after a pre-negotiation agreement is entered into. A forbearance agreement can benefit both...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) promulgated regulations (“Part 119”) on March 24, 2020, to provide financial relief to individuals who can demonstrate a financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19...more
On March 24, 2020 the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) adopted on an emergency basis a regulation that requires New York-regulated banking organizations and New York-regulated mortgage servicers subject...more
On March 21st New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order which seeks to protect individuals who experience financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The executive order does the following: 1....more
The World Health Organization’s (“WHO”) formal declaration that the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is now a pandemic, accompanied by the United States’ Federal Government and individual states’ “state of emergency”...more
On December 18, 2019, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued its Final Regulations detailing the business conduct rules for mortgage loan servicers. ...more
New York’s amended mortgage loan servicer regulations are a substantial departure from previous versions and could go beyond federal rules. Our Financial Services & Products Group delves into technicalities and ramifications...more