Aug 14, 2019 | Federal Regulation, Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that a debt collector violated the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) when it informed a consumer about her debt obligations via an email that did not “imply the...
Aug 9, 2019 | Federal Regulation, FinTech, News
← Previous Article Next Article → Earlier this week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the results of its No-Action Letter given to fintech company Upstart Network in late 2017. With the no-action policy, Upstart was able to show that...
Aug 8, 2019 | Federal Regulation, Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → Earlier this week, Judge Lee Yeakel from the District Court for the Western District of Texas continued his “stay” of the compliance date for both the payment provisions and the mandatory underwriting provisions of the...
Aug 7, 2019 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
← Previous Article Next Article → Last week, we told readers that Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell was “seriously considering” a real-time payments system. A week later, the Fed officially announced that it would begin developing a...
Aug 7, 2019 | Federal Regulation, Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → On August 2, 2019, the defendants and plaintiffs in a lawsuit over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Small-Dollar Rule asked a Texas district court to continue its stay of the Rule, including both the...
Aug 2, 2019 | Banks & Credit Unions, Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → In a letter to Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) was “seriously considering” a real-time payments system, and that the Fed was uniquely structured to oversee the...
Jul 30, 2019 | Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → A federal court in Texas recently shutdown a “rogue payment processor” and a “credit card interest reduction scheme” that allegedly took millions of dollars from consumers illegally, according to the Federal Trade Commission...
Jul 30, 2019 | Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) along with the New York Attorney General (AG) proposed settlements with several debt collectors that were allegedly in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, the...
Jul 26, 2019 | Federal Regulation, FinTech, News
← Previous Article Next Article → The payment provisions of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus’ (CFPB) small-dollar rule (the Rule), also known as the payday rule, is set to go into effect on August 19, 2019. Last month, the CFPB updated its Small...
