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Regulatory Rollback: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in Earned-Wage Access — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast

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In this special joint episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Payments Pros, Chris Willis, co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke's Consumer Financial Services Regulatory Practice, is joined by Keith Barnett and Jason Cover...more

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No AI Law? No Problem. How Massachusetts Attacked AI Underwriting Under Existing State Statutes

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On July 10, 2025, the Massachusetts Attorney General (AGO) entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance (AOD) with a private student loan lender (the Company), resolving allegations that the Company's underwriting practices...more

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MoForecast: State AGs and Consumer Financial Protection: Anticipating Shifts in Enforcement Focus

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) faces uncertainty, state attorneys general (state AGs) are poised to fill the enforcement gap in consumer financial protection. With the CFPB’s future in question, state AGs...more

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Why Financial Institutions Should Stay the Course

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Introduction - Many regulated businesses believe that the only thing worse than strict regulations is a wholly uncertain regulatory environment. With many rule changes on hold and enforcement actions and investigations being...more

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2024 Year in Review - Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends

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Welcome to the “Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. As Goodwin predicted in our previous year in review, the enforcement and...more

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RegFi Episode 54: Imagining the Future of the CFPB and Consumer Financial Regulation

At no time in recent memory has consumer finance regulation faced more prospects for change. RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley, Sasha Leonhardt, Sherry Safchuk and Caroline Stapleton discuss what could be in play for consumer...more

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CFPB’s Open Banking Rules: Dead on Arrival or Alive and Well?

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized its long-awaited Personal Financial Data Rights rules under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act, marking a significant milestone in the regulation of...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2024 Annual Review - Fintech

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to companies in FinTech. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was on a tear in the months leading up to the election and the inauguration of...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (December 13, 2021)

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Thank you for your interest in the Wiley Consumer Protection Download! This will be our last publication of 2021, with our bi-weekly newsletter returning in January 2022. Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments...more

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SEC Issues No-Action Relief On Registered Funds’ Custody Of Loan Interests

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In this Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was very active this week, having (i) issued no-action relief allowing registered funds to engage in self-custody of interests in loans that are originated,...more

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State Attorneys General Challenge the OCC’s “True Lender” Rule

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As LenderLaw Watch previously reported, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued its final rule on the True Lender doctrine in October 2020, addressing ambiguity in federal law and establishing that a...more

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Consumer Financial Services and Fintech Enforcement Trends in California

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Following the departure of former CFPB Director Richard Cordray in 2017, consumer advocates and state attorneys general raised concerns regarding the new hands-off approach by the Trump administration pertaining to consumer...more

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CFPB and Utah AG announce joint office hours in Salt Lake City as part of ACFIN

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The CFPB and Utah AG’s Office have announced that they will hold the first joint office hours as part of the American Consumer Financial Innovation Network (ACFIN).  The joint office hours will be held on January 30, 2020 in...more

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Consumer financial services: The road ahead: Marketplace lending

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The CFPB has traditionally not prioritized marketplace lenders in its supervisory and enforcement efforts. As a result, state regulators have increasingly sought to fill any perceived voids left by the Bureau....more

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Consumer financial services: The road ahead: Auto finance

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In 2018, the CFPB continued to pay attention to the auto finance industry, with a particular focus on indirect (dealer-arranged) auto lenders and unfair or abusive loan servicing practices....more

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Consumer financial services: The road ahead: Student loans

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In 2018, the CFPB shifted away from student lending supervision and enforcement. We anticipate this trend to continue in the year to come, with states seeking to fill any voids left by the Bureau....more

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Consumer financial services: The road ahead: Small-dollar loans

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In February 2019, the CFPB released the highly anticipated revamp of its Payday Rule, reinforcing its more lenient attitude towards payday lenders. In light of the Bureau’s softer touch, as well as similar developments at the...more

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Arizona AG announces more fintech sandbox participants

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In August 2018, Arizona began accepting applications for its regulatory sandbox that “enables a participant to obtain limited access to Arizona’s market to test innovative financial products or services without first...more

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