Native American Financial Services Association

NAFSA Applauds OCC’s Focus on Banking Successes and Opportunities in Native Communities

Aug 30, 2013 | Press Release

WASHINGTON (August 30, 2013) — Following the publication of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) August 2013 Community Development Investments e-zine, entitled “Extending Credit in Indian Country,” The Native American Financial...

Tribes Involved in Native American Defense of Sovereign Rights Obtain a Court Order to Expedite the Case

Aug 26, 2013 | Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC (August 26, 2013) – In a new development in Otoe-Missouria Tribe, et al. v. N.Y. State Department of Financial Services, et al., where two federally-recognized Native American tribes are suing the Department and its Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky to...

New York’s Attack on Tribal Lenders Is a Threat to All Natives

Aug 26, 2013 | News

Despite a clear precedent in last year’s victory by tribal lenders against Colorado regulators, New York state authorities are mounting yet another attempt to erode tribal sovereign rights to operate businesses without state interference. New York’s banking czar,...

Indian Tribes Said to Sue N.Y. Financial Regulator

Aug 22, 2013 | News

Two American Indian Tribes said they sued New York state’s financial regulatory agency and its head over his crackdown on businesses that do lending over the Internet, some of which are tribally-owned. A lawsuit seeking a court order against Benjamin Lawsky,...

Native American Tribes Launch Legal Action against State of New York in Major Defense of Tribal Sovereignty

Aug 21, 2013 | Press Release

WASHINGTON (August 21, 2013) — After recent actions by New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) Administrator Benjamin Lawsky to unlawfully intimidate Native American tribes and the legal and licensed businesses they run, a coalition of Tribes has filed a...

Online Loans Help Families Meet Immediate Credit Needs

Aug 19, 2013 | News

A recent piece by Ed Mierzwinski of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group [“Regulators Play ‘Whack-a-Mole’ With Predatory Lenders,” August 13] vilifying the short-term, online lending industry as “predatory” grossly misrepresented...

Tribal Online Lenders Ask Banks to Resist Regulatory Pressure

Aug 14, 2013 | News

An association of online lenders operated by Native American tribes called on banks to resist pressure from New York State to cut them off from the nation’s primary payment system. The Native American Financial Services Association said the state’s regulators are...

Indian Tribes to Banks: Ignore That Man Behind the Curtain

Aug 14, 2013 | News

Indian tribes are urging banks to ignore attempts by New York’s top banking regulator to stop processing transactions for online lenders whose loans allegedly violate state interest-rate caps. The Native American Financial Services Association, a group that represents...

NAFSA Applauds New York Attorney General Decision to File Suit against Lender Circumventing Tribal Law

Aug 13, 2013 | Press Release

WASHINGTON (August 12, 2013) — Following a move by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to file suit against Western Sky Loans – an online lender which does not operate under tribal law or abide by tribal regulatory bodies and is not wholly-owned by a...

NY finance official on the warpath against Native American payday lenders

Aug 12, 2013 | News

Native American tribes are asking New York State’s top banking regulator to leave their payday loan businesses alone. Regulator Ben Lawsky sent cease-and-desist letters last week to 35 lenders and 112 banks providing or facilitating short-term, high-interest payday...

NAFSA Applauds OCC’s Focus on Banking Successes and Opportunities in Native Communities

Tribes Involved in Native American Defense of Sovereign Rights Obtain a Court Order to Expedite the Case

New York’s Attack on Tribal Lenders Is a Threat to All Natives

Indian Tribes Said to Sue N.Y. Financial Regulator

Native American Tribes Launch Legal Action against State of New York in Major Defense of Tribal Sovereignty

Online Loans Help Families Meet Immediate Credit Needs

Tribal Online Lenders Ask Banks to Resist Regulatory Pressure

Indian Tribes to Banks: Ignore That Man Behind the Curtain

NAFSA Applauds New York Attorney General Decision to File Suit against Lender Circumventing Tribal Law

NY finance official on the warpath against Native American payday lenders

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