Navigating the CFPB's Controversial Interpretive Rule on BNPL Products — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Regulation of Negative Option Consumer Contracts – Silence as Consent
CFPB's Focus on Student Loan Servicing: Insights from the Office of Servicemember Affairs Report — The Consumer Finance Podcast
FTC and CFPB Focus on Medical, Rental Debt Collection Practices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau vs. the Video Game Industry
Exploring the CFPB's Stance on AI in Financial Services — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The CFPB's Report on Negative Equity in Auto Lending — Crossover Episode With Moving the Metal Podcast — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Why Retailers and Merchants Should Pay Attention to the CFPB - The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB Warns of Manipulation in Digital Comparison Shopping Tools
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The CFPB’s Registry of Nonbanks and Circular that Certain Contract Terms Violate Law
Navigating FCRA and Debt Collection With Special Guest Bridgeforce’s Michelle Macartney — The Consumer Finance Podcast
FTC CFPB Enforcement Report — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Earned Wage Access: Exploring the CFPB's Proposed Interpretive Rule — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Credit Card Late Fees Have the CFPB's Interest
Navigating FCRA and Debt Collection With Special Guest Bridgeforce's Michelle Macartney — FCRA Focus Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Should Medical Debt Be Included in Creditworthiness Measures?
Loans, Retail Installment Contracts, and Refinancing Programs — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Elder Abuse-Financial Exploitation and Fraud
Redlining Isn’t What it Used To Be
Welcome Trevor Salter: A Deep Dive Into Financial Services Transactions — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features the new UK securitization regime, eHELOCs, and climate risk disclosures....more
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported its observations on firms’ market abuse surveillance arrangements in the May edition of Market Watch. The newsletter looks at a peer review of surveillance model testing...more
May 1, 2024 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled, “Merger Policies of the Federal Banking Agencies.” The Committee heard...more
January 16, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled, "A Field Guide to Monetary Policy Implementation Issues in a New World with CBDC, Stablecoin, and Narrow Banks."...more
Following the declaration of the international artificial intelligence (AI) “Safety Summit” at Bletchley Park (Bletchley Summit) on November 1, 2023, and the White House’s October 30, 2023, Executive Order on AI (Executive...more
October 12, 2023- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Justice Department issued a joint statement that reminds financial institutions that all credit applicants are protected from discrimination on the basis of...more
September 19, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the SEC's Division of Investment Management."...more
September 14, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled, "Implementing Basel III: What's the Fed's Endgame?"...more
September 5, 2023- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York General Counsel Richard Ostrander authored a paper prepared for a panel discussion on Central Bank Immunities and International Sanctions at the ECB Legal Conference...more
August 30, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled, "FinTech and Banks: Strategic Partnerships That Circumvent State Usury Laws." August 30, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board published a...more
June 1, 2023- The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) issued a joint consent order to facilitate the implementation...more
In This Weekly Roundup Issue. Governor Michelle W. Bowman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) remarked on the consequences of fewer banks in the U.S. banking system; and the Consumer...more
In this latest issue of Wilson Sonsini's Focus on Fintech newsletter, we discuss the FTX bankruptcy and the increased federal regulatory scrutiny of crypto assets, and new rules and innovations in the payments...more
Dem Senators Urge CFPB Focus on P2P Payment Platforms - A group of Democratic U.S. senators sent a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) urging the agency to take a harder look at peer-to-peer (P2P)...more
Major Developments- Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Board Speech: Responding to High Inflation, with Some Thoughts on a Soft Landing- ...more
Congress- U.S. House of Representatives- Committee on Financial Services- Hearing: Digital Assets and the Future of Finance: Examining the Benefits and Risks of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency-...more
The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors issued a communique on the results of their May 18-20 Meeting in Petersburg, Germany....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) has issued final regulations (Final Regulations) to facilitate the transition away from Libor (the London Interbank Offered Rate) in the consumer credit market and to...more
Can you say 0 to 60? Not cars, but pretty much everything to do with financial services. A new year, a new administration, and new challenges for providers. Prior CFPB Director Kraninger is long gone. Acting Director Uejio...more
UK Set to Move Forward on BNPL Regulation - The United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently issued a report on the market conditions for buy-now pay-later (BNPL) unsecured lending. The report recommends...more
Mario Draghi presided over his final ECB meeting yesterday, with the central bank deciding to hold rates steady and let current stimulus measures play out for the time being. His departure (and the arrival of former IMF chief...more
The CFPB recently published a blog post to advise consumers that LIBOR is expected be eliminated sometime after 2021 and that the change will effect some adjustable-rate loans and lines of credit. ...more
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic continue to monitor and address cryptoasset and distributed ledger technology activities. We recently posted on the guidance issued by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on...more
The Senate Banking Committee has voted out of committee a bipartisan effort to ease Dodd-Frank regulations. The bill in question could “drastically cut” the number of banks subject to heightened Fed oversight and “would ease...more
SEC Proposes Rules to Implement FAST Act Mandate to Modernize and Simplify Disclosure - On October 11, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments "to modernize and simplify disclosure...more