Apr 21, 2021 | Financial Literacy, News
Poll Finds 15 Percent of Americans in Worse Financial Shape Than Before Pandemic A new poll from Impact Genome and The Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that nearly 38 million Americans are struggling more today than they were before...
Apr 19, 2021 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Proposes 60-Day Delay of Final Debt Collection Rules Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed delaying the effective date of two debt collection rules issued under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The rules are...
Apr 16, 2021 | FinTech, News
CEI Report: APR Calculations Are Misleading When Applied to Short-Term Loans Last week, a new Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) report criticized attempts to impose caps on short-term, small-dollar loans based on a hypothetical annual percentage rate (APR) that...
Apr 14, 2021 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
PNC Certified for New Account Aimed at Underbanked Last month, PNC Financial Services Group became certified from the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund for a second bank account that limits fees, allowing underbanked consumers to maintain access to banking...
Apr 12, 2021 | Banks & Credit Unions, Federal Regulation, News
FDIC Launches Campaign Aimed at Persuading Unbanked to Get Accounts The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently launched a public awareness campaign highlighting the benefits of opening a bank account. The goal of the pilot campaign is to support...
Apr 9, 2021 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Rescinds Seven Policy Statements Issued Last Year Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its rescinding of seven policy statements issued in 2020 that provided temporary flexibility to financial institutions in markets such as...
Apr 7, 2021 | FinTech, News
Five Bank Regulators Seek Input on How Financial Institutions Use AI Last week, five federal financial regulatory agencies—the Federal Reserve Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit...
Apr 5, 2021 | Congressional Legislation, News
Waters Releases April Hearing Schedule for House Financial Services Committee According to Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services (HFSC), the committee is currently slated to hold seven hearings over the month...
Apr 2, 2021 | Congressional Legislation, Federal Regulation, News
Congressional Democrats Introduce Resolution Undoing OCC’s True Lender Rule Last week, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Representative Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) introduced a resolution aimed at undoing the Office of the Comptroller of the...
Mar 31, 2021 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Issues 2020 Annual Complaint Report Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its Consumer Response Annual Report for 2020 to provide insight on issues consumers reported to the Bureau throughout the year. The Bureau saw the pandemic’s...
