As Online Financial Services Shift, Mainstream Institutions Join the Fray
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its long-anticipated small dollar rule earlier this month, a regulation that could eliminate 80% of the payday loan business. For the estimated 12 million people that regularly rely upon payday products, other...
CFPB Helps Recover $750 Million in Student Debt Relief
A new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) detailed more than 20,000 complaints received by the agency over the past year related to student loans. Up until last year, the Bureau had only fielded 40,000 complaints on the topic since it began...
Administration Proposes New Land-into-Trust Regulations
The U.S. Department of the Interior earlier this month released new proposed regulations to govern the process by which land may be acquired and placed into trust status by the federal government for the benefit of tribes. Interior recognizes that taking land into...
Trump Moves to Fill Critical Indian Affairs Posts
While many tribal leaders met in Milwaukee, WI at the National Congress of American Indians’ 74th Annual Convention, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the nomination of Tara Sweeney to the position of Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs. Sweeney stands...
Scott Tucker Found Guilty in Rent-a-Tribe Payday Loan Scheme
It took a federal court jury only five hours to return a guilty verdict for Scott Tucker and attorney Timothy Muir in their trial for fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and racketeering. Over the course of almost a month, federal prosecutors told the story of how...
Senate Seeking Bipartisan Fixes to Dodd-Frank
As the Financial CHOICE Act 2.0 stalls in the Senate, a group of moderate Democrats are reaching across the aisle to bring smaller, but meaningful, changes to the Dodd-Frank Act, Obama-era legislation that placed considerable restraints on financial institutions...
Trump Inches Closer to Nominating New Fed Chair
On October 11th, President Trump met with Stanford Economist John Taylor about assuming the role of Chair of the Federal Reserve when Janet Yellen’s term leading the Fed’s Board of Governors expires in January. Speculation has swirled for months over who will assume...
Wells Fargo Study Determines That Money May Buy Happiness
Despite the old adage that “money can’t buy happiness,” a new study by Wells Fargo is linking money with happiness among the maturing millennial generation. That happiness, however, is not related to purchasing big ticket items or even avocado toast,...
