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In one of the first tests of the implications of the Jarkesy decision for other federal regulatory agencies, an individual accused by the FDIC of participating in fraudulent loan activity is asking a federal judge to dismiss...more
The recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding resulted in the Bureau announcing the new effective dates for banks to begin collecting their CRA...more
One of the primary challenges with working in U.S. financial services is keeping up with the ever-changing federal and state regulatory landscape. Juggling the day-to-day fire drills while staying atop of regulatory changes...more
Resulting from a lawsuit by the California Reinvestment Coalition against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) in 2019 for its failure to promulgate a small business lending data rule in compliance with the...more
In the News. On the heels of a lawsuit challenging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) recently issued Madden fix/valid when made rule, eight state attorneys general filed suit challenging a similar rule...more
A group of small businesses and their individual owners have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a New York federal district court against online lender Kabbage, Inc. that alleges Kabbage engaged in a “rent-a-charter”...more
The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has issued an invitation for comments from stakeholders in developing regulations to implement SB 1235, the bill signed into law on September 30, 2018 that requires...more
The CFPB will hold a field hearing on small business lending in Los Angeles, CA on May 10, 2017. The announcement, which took the form of a posting on the events page of the CFPB’s website, contains only the usual statement...more
In its new annual report covering its fair lending activities during 2016, the CFPB identifies the following three areas on which it “will increase our focus” in 2017...more
According to Politico, the CFPB, OCC, Fed and FDIC have launched a review of bank sales practices, with the reviews to be conducted as special reviews rather than as part of the regular examination process....more
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of teaching a class on payments and banking products to new lawyers at the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Institute. I arrived early for the class and got to hear a...more
The CFPB has announced that it will hold a field hearing about arbitration in Denver, Colorado on October 7, 2015 and has asked Alan Kaplinsky, Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group, to...more