Dec 11, 2019 | Congressional Legislation, News
Legislation introduced by Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-Ill.) and Glen Grothman (R-Wisc.) that would ban all loans above a 36 percent APR was not considered in the House Financial Services Committee markup this week, meaning that it will not come before the committee...
Dec 10, 2019 | Banks & Credit Unions, Federal Regulation, News
Last week, five federal agencies—including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, and the Office of the Comptroller of the...
Dec 9, 2019 | Federal Regulation, News
As cybersecurity breach concerns have risen, the Federal Reserve has indicated in recent weeks that the nation’s central bank may soon boost supervision of technology firms in the banking industry. They are considering examining governance and compliance systems at...
Dec 6, 2019 | FinTech, News
According to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, the United States at present has no plans to create a digital currency. In a letter to Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.), Powell said that such a currency would be difficult for the U.S. central bank to adopt as many...
Dec 5, 2019 | Congressional Legislation, Federal Regulation, News
This week, the House Financial Services Committee is convening four hearings on various issues, which will be followed up by a two-day legislative markup next week. On Tuesday, the full committee held a hearing entitled “Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring...
Dec 3, 2019 | Banks & Credit Unions, FinTech, News
According to a survey by Promontory International Network, about 26 percent of community bankers consider big technology companies like Google and Amazon to be the main threat to their business. Tech giants rated more than double the 11 percent of community bankers...
Dec 2, 2019 | Federal Regulation, News
With student loans becoming the biggest non-mortgage type of debt in the United States, the federal government has created income-driven repayment (IDR) plans to curb student loan debt stress. Recently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a Data...
Nov 27, 2019 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
In recent days, both the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the FDIC announced that they were proposing rules to clarify the “Valid When Made” doctrine. According to an OCC Press Release, the rule would “clarify that when a national bank or savings...
Nov 26, 2019 | FinTech, News
A few months ago, Apple made big waves in the financial services sector when it launched Apple Card, a product it bills as “A new kind of credit card. Created by Apple, not a bank.” Facebook, too, has looked to get into finance with the launch of Libra, a digital...
