Jun 19, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senator Brown Proposes Privacy Bill to Protect Consumer Data Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) earlier this week released the Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020, a draft privacy bill that would allow Americans to hold the federal government, tech companies,...
Jun 16, 2020 | FinTech, News, Online Lending
Income & Employment Trends During COVID-19 Unemployment claims have exceeded 36 million in America, and our economy is experiencing a shift no one saw coming. In these unprecedented times, consumers have taken drastic measures that are changing their borrowing...
Jun 15, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
New York Fed Says Consumers Were More Optimistic About Economy in May According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations for May 2020, Americans grew more optimistic about the state of the economy compared to April. However,...
Jun 12, 2020 | Financial Literacy, News
Experian Report Shows Decreased Delinquency Rates on Auto Loans in Q1 2020 According to Experian’s most recent State of the Automotive Finance Market Report, delinquency rates on automotive loans went down during the first quarter of 2020, even as the industry dealt...
Jun 10, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
U.S. Economy Officially Enters Recession as of February In February 2020, the United States economy entered its first recession in 11 years as a result of the widespread business shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic. According to a report issued this week by the...
Jun 8, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
Banks Collected $11 Billion in Overdraft Fees in 2019 Banks last year collected $11.68 billion from customer accounts in overdraft fees, according to new research released last week by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), an advocacy group focused on financial...
Jun 5, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, Federal Regulation, News
Acting OCC Head Calls for Ending Coronavirus-Related Shutdowns to Boost Economy Brian Brooks, who became acting Comptroller of the Currency after former Comptroller Joseph Otting stepped down last week, has called for states to end the shutdown orders that were put in...
Jun 3, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Democratic Senators Press Treasury on Tribal Concerns on Coronavirus Relief Funds Last week, Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, was joined by 11 of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate in sending a letter to...
Jun 1, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senators Introduce Bill to Prevent CARES Act Payments from Garnishment U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced a bill last week to protect CARES Act pandemic relief payments from garnishment...
