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New York’s FAIR Act: What Financial Services Compliance Teams Must Know

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What Happened? As we highlighted in March following its introduction, the New York’s Fostering Affordability and Integrity through Reasonable Business Practices (“FAIR”) Act represents a fundamental transformation of the...more

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FDIC Removes Disparate Impact Theory from Compliance Exam Manual

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Before the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) updated the fair lending and unfair, deceptive act or practices (UDAP) chapters of its Consumer Compliance Examination Manual to remove...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

HelloFresh to Pay $7.5 Million to Settle Automatic Renewal Suit

Last month, HelloFresh agreed to settle an investigation by the California Automatic Renewal Task Force (“CART”) made up of several California counties and cities. CART’s lawsuit, filed contemporaneously with its agreed...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Massachusetts state court allows consumer protection suit over home equity investment product to proceed

On August 21, a Massachusetts superior court denied a motion to dismiss filed by a financial technology company offering a home equity investment (HEI) product. The financial technology company asserted that the HEI is an...more

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2025 State Enforcement Recap

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Until the Dodd-Frank Act, the states were at the forefront of consumer credit regulation and enforcement. The arrival of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave the states, which typically operated within tight...more

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FTC Sues LA Fitness to Cancel Unfair Membership Cancellation Practices

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The FTC has sued Fitness International, LLC and Fitness & Sports Clubs, LLC—the operators of “LA Fitness”—alleging that the gyms have made it extremely difficult for consumers to cancel memberships and recurring charges in...more

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State AGs Are Stepping Up — Is Your Bank Ready for Multistate Scrutiny?

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The CFPB has scaled back some enforcement priorities, and the states have noticed. Certain states – including California, New York, Texas, and Connecticut – are particularly active, pursuing UDAP violations, privacy issues,...more

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Pennsylvania AG Alleges Mortgage Brokers Engaged in Illegal Referral Scheme

On January 17, the Pennsylvania Attorney General filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against a group of mortgage brokers and their manager, alleging that they...more

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New York’s FAIR Business Practices Act: State Regulators Begin Expansion of Consumer Protection Authority

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On March 13, 2025, New York State took a significant step towards bolstering its consumer and small business protections with the introduction of the Fostering Affordability and Integrity Through Reasonable (FAIR) Business...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New York attorney general proposes bill against unfair, deceptive and abusive practices

On March 13, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced proposed legislation to strengthen the state’s consumer protection framework by expanding enforcement powers beyond deceptive acts and practices to also include...more

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New York Legislature Aims to Fill Federal Consumer Protection Void

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On March 13, 2025, New York legislators introduced a bill backed by New York Attorney General Letitia James to expand the state’s current consumer protection law to cover “unfair” and “abusive” practices, and not just...more

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Massachusetts AG Issues New Regulations Targeting Junk Fees 

On March 3, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced new regulations, issued under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, aimed at curbing “junk fees” by requiring businesses to disclose total prices...more

Venable LLP

Navigating the New Consumer Financial Services Landscape: Enforcement, Compliance, and Litigation Risks

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Financial services companies may feel relief from the aggressive federal oversight and regulation that defined the past decade. However, regulatory risk has not disappeared—it has shifted. ...more

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A Primer on State Consumer Financial Regulation: What Businesses Need to Know Now

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The landscape of consumer financial services is shifting, driven by a broader deregulatory trend at the federal level. In this environment, companies must still address federal consumer financial law compliance and navigate a...more

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Expect To Feel Aftershocks Of Chopra's CFPB Shake-Up

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The future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and federal enforcement of consumer financial laws more generally — is uncertain. The Trump administration has ordered the CFPB to freeze all enforcement activity,...more

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CFPB Urges States to Enact Consumer Protections

CFPB Urges States to Enact Consumer Protections Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a report in tandem with a new initiative aimed at pushing an increased number and widening the scope of...more

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Deceptive and Unfair - Multiple NSF Fees on Representments of the Same Transaction

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In guidance issued recently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) advised that charging multiple non-sufficient funds (“NSF”) fees constitute “violations of law” when customer disclosures do not fully and...more

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Navient Settles with State AG Coalition Over Alleged Unfair, Deceptive, and Abusive Student Loan Origination and Servicing...

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On January 13, a coalition of 39 state attorneys general — led by AGs from Pennsylvania, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, and California — reached a settlement with student loan servicer Navient over allegedly unfair,...more

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CFPB files amicus brief in Third Circuit supporting PA AG

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The CFPB has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s lawsuit against Navient Corp.  The PA AG’s lawsuit includes claims that Navient violated the...more

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CFPB and NYAG file response and reply briefs in RD Legal

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The CFPB and the New York Attorney General have filed their response and reply briefs in the Second Circuit, where the CFPB and NYAG filed appeals from the district court’s decision and RD Legal Funding filed a cross-appeal. ...more

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CFPB and NYAG file opening briefs with Second Circuit in RD Legal Funding case

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The CFPB and New York Attorney General have filed their opening briefs in their appeals to the Second Circuit in RD Legal Funding. ...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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NY Attorney General files appeal with Second Circuit in RD Legal Funding case

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The New York Attorney General, on October 12, 2018, filed an appeal with the Second Circuit from Judge Preska’s dismissal on September 12 of all of the NYAG’s federal and state law claims, and her subsequent September 18...more

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RD Legal Funding files letter on jurisdictional issues

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RD Legal Funding has submitted a letter to Judge Preska asking her to dismiss all of the federal claims of the New York Attorney General (NYAG). ...more

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