← Previous Article Next Article → At the request of Rep. Norma Torres (D- CA), NAFSA joined other prominent Native organizations, including the National Congress of American Indians, Native American Contractors Association, United South and Eastern Tribes,...
← Previous Article Next Article → When Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- MA), then a law professor at Harvard, laid the original groundwork in 2007 for what would later become the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), she famously voiced a concern that...
← Previous Article Next Article → A bipartisan bill aimed at loosening some Dodd-Frank banking regulations passed the Senate Banking Committee unchanged. The bill, proposed by Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R- ID), would increase the threshold at which banks...
← Previous Article Next Article → A bipartisan group in the House introduced a resolution on December 1st to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) recently published Small Dollar rule through the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The...
← Previous Article Next Article → NAFSA Executive Director Gary Davis spoke of the importance of a cooperative industry best practices to strengthen the self-regulation of tribal online lending at the Tribal Regulators Conference in Minneapolis on November...
← Previous Article Next Article → A federal judge ruled late Tuesday afternoon against a request by Leandra English, former Chief of Staff and recently-promoted Deputy Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), for an injunction that would...
← Previous Article Next Article → The New York Fed issued a report earlier this month comparing various forms of household debt and credit. Credit card delinquencies crept up to 4.6% for the third quarter of 2017, although delinquencies remain well below the...
← Previous Article Next Article → On November 26th a federal court jury in Philadelphia found former payday lending mogul Charles Hallinan and his business attorney Wheeler Neff guilty of racketeering and fraud. Hallinan was convicted for utilizing the same...
← Previous Article Next Article → On the day after Thanksgiving when most Americans were out shopping for the holidays, outgoing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray quietly appointed his Chief of Staff, Leandra English, as...
As part of the agency’s financial education mandate, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report this week chronicling consumer experiences with bank account overdraft coverage. The study found that many account holders did not understand how their...
