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New Calif. Consumer Protection Agency Strikes Data Sharing Deal with Fintechs
At the end of January, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) signed an agreement with five fintech companies to better evaluate the risks and benefits of the products they offer. The DFPI is using new enforcement and oversight...
Two Democrats, Three Republicans Join Senate Banking Committee for 117th Congress
The Senate Banking Committee began the 117th Congress with the addition of five new members, including two Democrats and three Republicans. With the change in control of the chamber, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) becomes chair of the committee and Senator Pat Toomey...
Mika Leonard in the Detroit News: Give Native Americans Voice in Federal Financial Regulations
The below opinion column from NAFSA Chief Operations Officer Mika Leonard originally appeared in the Detroit News. On Jan. 26, the Biden administration tackled inequality with executive orders and presidential memoranda addressing issues faced by vulnerable...
Featured Resources
Our Digital Financial Literacy Program
Too many consumers mismanage their budgets, make poor investment decisions, and fail to properly plan for the future. NAFSA is committed to empowering people with the skills they need to change this trend and thrive financially. NAFSA’s Financial Literacy Program offers an assortment of digital modules covering a wide variety of financial topics, including building emergency savings, mortgage education, and retirement planning.
Tribal Online Lending Best Practices
NAFSA has developed Best Practices for the exclusive use of all NAFSA Members as it relates to their Tribal Online Lending businesses. We believe these Best Practices will help ensure consumer protection, quality service, and positive customer and industry interactions during the life of the loans made by tribal lending entities who are NAFSA members. Our Best Practices apply to all stages of the loan, including marketing, origination, servicing, collecting, and ongoing data privacy.
The Impact of Tribal Financial Services
Coming from a history of staggering unemployment rates, limited opportunities, and lack of access to fundamental resources, Native American tribes began online lending businesses to create real change for the future. Internet commerce has been a vehicle for supporting economic growth, tribal services, and tribal development. These are their stories.
Why NAFSA?
There are more than 570 federally-recognized tribes in the United States, many of whom are spread across in diverse areas. This has left a need for other tribal economic development opportunities to create sustainability and jobs on Native American reservations.
Tribal Financial Services:
Create jobs & economic development on tribal lands
Increase the financial independence of tribes
Deploy sovereignty & bolster tribal self-determination
Our Mission
To advocate for tribal sovereignty, promote responsible financial services, and provide better economic opportunity in Indian Country for the benefit of tribal communities.
To protect and preserve the sovereignty of Native American tribes while offering an unprecedented opportunity for tribal economic growth
Growing opportunity for Indian Country in the financial services industry
Advancing financial literacy in tribal communities
