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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
States Agree to Regulatory Cooperation
Earlier today, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), announced that 23 states have agreed to accept other states’ reviews of companies’ licensing process for money transmitters and other money services businesses (MSBs). The agreement lays out two tracts...
Federal Regulators Provide (Some) Regulatory Relief for Small Banks
The three federal bank regulators - the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve (the Fed), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) - issued a final rule that will streamline call reports for banks with assets less than $5...
New Study: Fintech Reduces Discrimination in Lending
Although discrimination in lending remains a problem in America today, discrimination is declining, largely as a result of fintech firms’ use of algorithms. According to the latest research, fintech algorithms discriminate 40 percent less than traditional,...