Oct 21, 2022 | Federal Regulation, Litigation, News
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds CFPB Funding Mechanism is Unconstitutional On Wednesday night, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited ruling which found that the independent funding mechanism Congress established to insulate the Bureau from...
Oct 19, 2022 | FinTech, News
BNPL Remains Absent from Most Consumers’ Credit Scores Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion have recently begun allowing buy now, pay later (BNPL) lenders to report their short-term payment plans for consumers’ credit scores, but many of the largest BNPL companies...
Oct 17, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
House Republicans Press Acting Comptroller on Bank-Fintech Partnerships Last week, House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) led a group of Republicans from the Committee’s Task Force on Financial Technology in a letter to acting...
Oct 14, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, Litigation, News
State AGs Sue to Halt Cancellation of Student Loan Debt Last month, Attorneys General in several states filed a complaint against President Biden, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, and the U.S. Department of Education seeking to block the implementation of the...
Oct 13, 2022 | NAFSA News, Tribal Sovereignty
A special conversation with Chairman John R. Shotton (Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma and Chairman, NAFSA, Board of Directors) As part of our celebration of the Native American Financial Services Association’s (NAFSA) 10-year anniversary, we will be bringing you a...
Oct 12, 2022 | FinTech, News
Afterpay Expands from Pay-in-4 BNPL Offerings to Interest-Bearing Loans Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) company Afterpay recently announced that it is adding a monthly payment option at the point of sale for users to choose to stretch payments for certain items for up to a...
