← Previous Article Next Article → On Saturday evening, President Trump announced the selection of Kathy Kraninger as his choice to permanently head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said on Saturday that Ms....
← Previous Article Next Article → This week, Joseph Otting, head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) headed to Capitol Hill for a dual round of hearings before the House Committee on Financial Services on Wednesday and the Senate Banking...
← Previous Article Next Article → On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Washington v. U.S., a case that had been watched closely by Indian country because of its potential impact on Native American treaty rights. “This...
← Previous Article Next Article → Last month, both the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued proposals to allow banks and credit unions to offer short-term, small-dollar lending products....
← Previous Article Next Article → In a hearing last week convened by the House Financial Services’ Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, members of Congress on the panel considered four statutory changes to the structure of the Consumer...
← Previous Article Next Article → Nearly a month after the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held confirmation hearings for Tara Sweeney, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Committee has advanced her nomination, clearing it...
← Previous Article Next Article → In the primary for New Mexico’s first Congressional District on Tuesday night, Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, handily beat out five other challengers to secure the Democratic nomination. While 21...
← Previous Article Next Article → On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the appointment of Valerie Szczepanik as Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation. In...
← Previous Article Next Article → For nearly a year and half, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has been exploring the possibility of extending a special purpose national bank charter to fintech companies like online lenders. During a press call...
← Previous Article Next Article → Several years of positive growth have been good for investors in fintech lending companies like Social Finance (SoFi), LendingClub, Prosper, and Avant. But after a wave of defaults across these platforms, investors have...
