Oct 22, 2013 | Press Release
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2013) — Following repeated attacks on the lending businesses owned, operated, and regulated by sovereign Native American tribes, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is today joining the fight led by the Native American...
Oct 10, 2013 | Press Release
WASHINGTON (October 7, 2013) — As the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) continues fighting to preserve tribes’ sovereign rights through strong businesses that are adequately regulated by tribal entities, NAFSA is pleased to announce...
Oct 2, 2013 | Press Release
WASHINGTON (October 1, 2013) — After the Hon. Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court, Southern District ofNew York denied a preliminary injunction in The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, et al. v. New York State Department of Financial Services, et...
Oct 1, 2013 | Press Release
WASHINGTON (September 30, 2013) — NAFSA’s tribal members appreciate the FDIC’s recent guidance to banks and processors which codifies the legality of doing business with online lenders. The Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) looks...
Sep 17, 2013 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As state and federal authorities across the country overstep their legal boundaries and infringe on Native Americans’ status as sovereign entities, tribes are speaking up in support of their rights,...
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...
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...
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...
