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A Digital Financial Literacy Program
Too many consumers mismanage their budgets, make uninformed investment decisions, and fail to properly plan for the future. NAFSA is committed to empowering people with the skills they need to change this trend and thrive financially. NAFSA’s Financial Literacy Program offers an assortment of digital modules covering a wide variety of financial topics, including building emergency savings, mortgage education, and retirement planning.
Tribal Online Lending Best Practices
NAFSA has developed Best Practices for the exclusive use of all NAFSA Members as it relates to their Tribal Online Lending businesses. We believe these Best Practices will help ensure consumer protection, quality service, and positive customer and industry interactions during the life of the loans made by tribal lending entities who are NAFSA members. Our Best Practices apply to all stages of the loan, including marketing, origination, servicing, collecting, and ongoing data privacy.
The Latest Financial News
CFPB Extends Open Comment Period for Debt Collection Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced yesterday that it would extend the open comment period for its proposed Debt Collection Rule. Interested parties now have until September 18, 2019 to submit comments.CFPB’s proposed rule would establish new...
Fed Chairman Backs Real-Time Payments
In a letter to Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) was “seriously considering” a real-time payments system, and that the Fed was uniquely structured to oversee the implementation of such a system.Over the past...
FTC and Ohio Join Forces to Protect Consumers
A federal court in Texas recently shutdown a “rogue payment processor” and a “credit card interest reduction scheme” that allegedly took millions of dollars from consumers illegally, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State of Ohio.“This case is...