Dec 24, 2018 | Banks & Credit Unions, Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, has filed a criminal charge against Central States Capital Markets (CSCM), alleging that the broker-dealer violated the Bank Secrecy when it failed to...
Dec 4, 2018 | Litigation, News, Tribal Sovereignty
← Previous Article Next Article → The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $1.3 billion award against Scott Tucker’s loan companies, rejecting Tucker’s arguments that the loan agreements were not unfair or deceptive. In the published opinion, U.S. Circuit...
Oct 26, 2018 | Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → This week, there have been several important legal developments in the small-dollar financial services industry: the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that cash advances are not always loans; the Consumer Financial Protection...
Sep 28, 2018 | Litigation, News, Tribal Sovereignty
← Previous Article Next Article → The Federal Trade Commission, along with the Department of Justice, has mailed refund checks totaling $505 million to more than one million people who were victims of a “lending scheme operated by AMG Services, Inc. and...