Feb 15, 2023 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
Banks Tightening Credit Standards, According to Fed Survey The most recent quarterly senior loan officer opinion survey from the Federal Reserve found banks reporting both weaker demand and stricter standards for commercial and industrial real estate, consumer loans,...
Feb 13, 2023 | Financial Literacy, News
TransUnion Report Finds Consumers Looking to Credit Products to Make Ends Meet A recent TransUnion report highlighting credit activity in Q4 of 2022 found that credit card balances hit a record $931 billion, which increased 18.5 percent from the fourth quarter of...
Feb 10, 2023 | Federal Regulation, News
Banks to CFPB: Rule to Cut Late Fees Requires Small Business Review Small community banks and credit unions have recently stated that they will be forced to sue the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) if their plan to cut credit card late fees to $8 goes into...
Feb 8, 2023 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott Announces Policy Priorities Last week, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the new Ranking Member on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, released his oversight and legislative priorities for the...
Feb 6, 2023 | Financial Literacy, News
More Higher Earners Report Living Paycheck to Paycheck A new survey by PYMNTS.com and LendingClub found that 64 percent of American consumers were living paycheck to paycheck at the end of 2022, which is 3 percent higher than in 2021 and an increase of 9.3 million...
Feb 3, 2023 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Releases Proposal Slashing Credit Card Late Fees The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued a proposed rule that it says will rein in excessive credit card late fees that cost Americans nearly $12 billion every year. The Bureau alleges that...
Feb 1, 2023 | Financial Literacy, News
Recent Study Finds Illinois Rate Cap Reduced Access to Credit A recent study found that the 36 percent interest rate cap on consumer loans imposed by the 2021 Illinois Predatory Loan Prevention Act (PLPA) decreased the availability of small-dollar credit and worsened...
Jan 30, 2023 | Financial Literacy, News
Majority of Adults in U.S. Unable to Afford $1,000 Emergency Expense A recent Bankrate report found that 57 percent of U.S. adults could not afford a $1,000 emergency expense. When asked how they would pay for an emergency expense, only 43 percent said they would use...
Jan 27, 2023 | Banks & Credit Unions, Federal Regulation, News
Acting Comptroller Warns that “Too Big to Manage” Banks May be Broken Up At a recent event hosted by The Brookings Institution, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu warned that banks whose size is too large to address internal weaknesses and adhere to...
Jan 25, 2023 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Proposes Rule to Rein in Nonbank Arbitration Contracts Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a proposed rule to establish a public registry of supervised nonbanks’ terms and conditions in contracts that claim to limit or...
