Trump Nominates Former HFS Chief Counsel to Run FDIC
President Trump recently nominated James Clinger to serve on the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) beginning November 29th. The FDIC is an independent federal agency that insures bank deposits and supervises banking institutions. Clinger will...
Tribal Economic Development Expert Gavin Clarkson Tapped for BIA Post
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma citizen and Associate Professor of Business at New Mexico State University Gavin Clarkson was recently hired to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Economic Development at the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). His...
UDAAP: CFPB’s Tool to Trample Tribal Sovereignty
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and granted the agency broad supervisory, enforcement, and rulemaking authority over financial service providers. Along with almost 20...
Treasury Issues Report On Financial Regulation Reforms
At the directive of the President, on June 12th the Department of the Treasury issued a report on revising regulations to create economic opportunities for the banking and finance industry. The report includes a number of proposals on changes that could be made to the...
Gorsuch Tackles Debt Collection in First Opinion for Supreme Court
Newly appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch issued his first opinion on June 12th for a unanimous court in a case concerning who qualifies as a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). In Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., Santander...
Hiding in Plain Sight: the Issue of Credit Invisibility in America
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently released a follow up to its 2015 study on credit invisibility in the United States. A person is “credit invisible” when they lack the data needed to calculate a credit score (invisible) or their credit data is so old...
House Mulls Contempt Charges for CFPB Director
On the heels of passing a bill that would severely curtail the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), House Financial Services Committee Chairman Representative Jeb Hensarling (R- TX) is considering holding CFPB Director Richard Cordray in...
House Votes to Overhaul Dodd-Frank, Now Senate’s Turn to Review
On June 8th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 233-186 to advance the Financial CHOICE Act to the Senate and continue the long process toward major revisions to the Dodd-Frank Act, a banking reform and consumer protection law passed by a bipartisan Congress...
