Apr 1, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
Democratic Senators Push Banks to Lower or Eliminate Overdraft Fees as House Financial Services Committee Holds Hearing on Them Last week, Senators Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), chair of the Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, and...
Mar 30, 2022 | Federal Regulation, Financial Literacy, News
CFPB’s Making Ends Meet Survey Finds 24% of Consumers Have No Savings Set Aside for Emergencies and 39% Have Less than a Month of Income Saved Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released insights from its Making Ends Meet Survey and...
Mar 28, 2022 | FinTech, News
Survey: 72% of Consumers Manage Lending Accounts Online A recent PYMNTS collaboration with Mastercard company Finicity, titled “Account Opening and Loan Servicing in the Digital Environment,” found that 61 percent of consumers have loan accounts with outstanding...
Mar 25, 2022 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Announces Crackdown on Discrimination in Consumer Finance The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced changes to its supervisory operations, expanding its authority to crack down on discrimination associated with all financial products....
Mar 23, 2022 | Federal Regulation, News
Senate Banking Committee Advances Powell, Brainard, Jefferson, and Cook for Fed Board With Sarah Bloom Raskin withdrawing her nomination to serve as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision—the top Wall Street watchdog at the Federal Reserve—Republicans ended...
