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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
Dems Attempt to Federally Enforce State Usury Laws with Introduction of SAFE Lending Act
A group of Democratic senators and representatives, lead by Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a bill on February 13th called the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act of 2018 that would require small dollar lenders to register with the...
Madden Fix Bill Passes House, Seeks to Restore Valid When Made Doctrine
The House this week passed the Protecting Consumers’ Access to Credit Act of 2017 in the hopes of overturning a court decision in the Second Circuit that previously refused to extend the National Bank Act’s rate exporting privileges when a third party debt...
Bank Associated with Scott Tucker Ordered to Pay $613 Million for Lack of Money Laundering Controls
A coalition of prosecutors and federal bank regulators issued a fine of $613 million to U.S. Bank late last week in connection with violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. The bank got in hot water with regulators in part for a failure to monitor for money...