Feb 14, 2017 | News
In less than a decade, tribal online lending has become a multi-billion dollar business. Its success rivals the first few years of Indian gaming following the 1988 passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, when tribal gaming revenues rose from a few hundred million...
Feb 10, 2017 | News
On February 8, acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen named Tom Pahl as Acting Director, of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau Of Consumer Protection, replacing Jessica Rich who served in that capacity since 2013. Pahl was a partner at DC law firm Arnold...
Feb 10, 2017 | News
The Senate voted this morning to end a filibuster and advance the nomination of Steven Mnuchin as the Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury. Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker and CEO of OneWest Bank, will now be subject to up to 30 hours of debate in the...
Feb 10, 2017 | News
A memo is circulating throughout the House this week authored by Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), summarizing legislation he plans to introduce possibly as early as this month to scale back regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act. Two key changes referenced in his memo are the...
Feb 10, 2017 | News
Tribal online lending represents around ten percent of the $20 billion online lending sector. Only a few years ago, tribes began entering this industry with mixed results. Tribes chose to partner with non-tribal businesses that offered a myriad of services in online...
Feb 1, 2017 | News
Yesterday, President Trump nominated Tenth Circuit judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy left at the U.S. Supreme Court by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia nearly one year ago. Gorsuch is a graduate of Harvard Law School and previously clerked for current Supreme...