Dec 14, 2017 | News
← Previous Article Next Article → A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled against a tribal lending enterprise (TLE) employee’s motion to dismiss for alleged racketeering and state lending law violations. The employee, Craig Mansfield, was co-manager of...
Dec 13, 2017 | News
← Previous Article Next Article → Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against Wells Fargo alleging the embattled bank defrauded hundreds of Navajo elders, youth, and other vulnerable populations by opening...
Dec 13, 2017 | News
← Previous Article Next Article → A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on December 12th by the State of New York as speculative regarding the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) proposed FinTech charter system. The case dismissal comes just a...
Dec 12, 2017 | News
← Previous Article Next Article → A group of 18 state and Washington, D.C. attorneys general filed an amicus brief to the D.C. District Court supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Deputy Director Leandra English in her suit against...
Dec 12, 2017 | News
← Previous Article Next Article → Earlier today the Supreme Court announced it would not be hearing a case between two tribal lending entities (TLEs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding the agency’s authority to issue civil...
Dec 7, 2017 | News
← 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,...
Dec 7, 2017 | News
← 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...
Dec 6, 2017 | News
← 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...
Dec 5, 2017 | News
← 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...
Dec 4, 2017 | News
← 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... 
