Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: How the CFPB Is Using Interpretive Rules to Expand Regulatory Requirements for Innovative Consumer Financial Products; Part Two: Earned Wage Access
Earned Wage Access: Exploring the CFPB's Proposed Interpretive Rule — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Understanding the CFPB's Payday Loan Rule: Implications and Compliance — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Understanding the CFPB's Payday Loan Rule: Implications and Compliance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Close Look at the Recent Study of the Effects of Illinois' 36% “All-In” Interest Rate Cap on Small-Dollar Credit Availability, with Special Guest Tom Miller
Fifth Circuit Rules that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Unconstitutionally Funded: What Does the Decision Mean? A Deep Dive with Special Guest Isaac Boltansky, BTIG
Earned Wage Access (EWA) lets employees access wages they've already earned, but haven't yet been paid, typically through an app or digital service. For workers, this can mean avoiding payday loans or overdraft fees....more
On March 11, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas against a financial technology company offering cash advances up to $200 through a lending app. The lawsuit alleged the company...more
Welcome to the “Payday and Small-Dollar Lending” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. We expect the level of enforcement and regulatory activity in the payday and short-term...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more
On June 14, the CFPB published a press release announcing that its 2017 Payday, Vehicle Title and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans Rule (“Payday Lending Rule”) will go into effect on or about March 30, 2025. According to...more
State AGs in the News- Former New Hampshire Attorney General Confirmed as Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court- •Former New Hampshire AG Gordon MacDonald was confirmed to be the chief justice of the state Supreme...more
COVID-19- Attorneys General Help Constituents Facing COVID-19-Related Challenges- Alabama AG Steve Marshall warned nursing home residents who are Medicaid recipients and their families about attempts by nursing homes to...more
On January 31, 2020, by a vote of 65 to 33, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that would establish a 36% rate cap on certain consumer loans. Since Democrats also hold a majority in the Virginia Senate, the Senate...more
On Wednesday, February 5, the House Financial Services Committee will hold the first part of a two-part hearing on “rent-a-bank” structures. The hearing is titled “Rent-A-Bank Schemes and New Debt Traps: Assessing Efforts to...more
The CFPB’s newly-released Summer 2018 edition of Supervisory Highlights represents the CFPB’s first Supervisory Highlights report covering supervisory activities conducted under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s leadership. ...more
Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new rule (the “payday rule”) that requires payday lenders to take additional steps to ensure borrowers are able to pay back their loans on time, launching...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued an Online Lending Report that calls for the application of New York usury limits to all online lending and increased regulation of online lenders making loans...more