Our Resources
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
Fight Over CFPB Leadership Highlights Faults in Agency’s Structure
When Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- MA), then a law professor at Harvard, laid the original groundwork in 2007 for what would later become the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), she famously voiced a concern that toaster ovens were more highly...
Dodd-Frank Reform Bill Clears Senate Banking Committee
A bipartisan bill aimed at loosening some Dodd-Frank banking regulations passed the Senate Banking Committee unchanged. The bill, proposed by Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R- ID), would increase the threshold at which banks are characterized as...
Bipartisan Coalition Hopes to Repeal Small Dollar Rule
A bipartisan group in the House introduced a resolution on December 1st to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) recently published Small Dollar rule through the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The bill’s sponsor is Rep. Dennis Ross...