Feb 10, 2020 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Director Kraninger Appears Before House Financial Services Committee Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger recently appeared before the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), testifying at a hearing entitled “Protecting...
Feb 6, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
House Financial Services Committee Convenes Hearing on Banks’ Partnerships with Non-Banks Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee convened a hearing entitled “Rent-A-Bank Schemes and New Debt Traps: Assessing Efforts to Evade State Consumer Protections and...
Feb 5, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Report on Small Business Lending and the Great Recession Outlines Decline in Access to Credit and Uneven Recovery The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently released a data point showing how small business lending has developed before, during, and...
Feb 4, 2020 | Financial Literacy, FinTech, News
FICO Announces Changes That Could Lower Consumers’ Credit Scores Fair Isaac Corp., which created the FICO credit score used by many lenders in credit decisions, recently announced a series of changes to its scoring model which the Wall Street Journal reports could...
Feb 3, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
House Financial Services Committee To Hold Eight Hearings in February During the month of February, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee will hold eight hearings on an array of topics, including bank partnerships with non-banks, public housing, the Consumer...
