Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What Banking Leaders Need to Know About the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling That the CFPB’s Funding Mechanism is Constitutional Part I
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Rewards Programs and Co-Brand Relationships Between Credit Card Issuers and Merchants - The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB’s Increasingly Active Interest in Credit Reporting - FCRA Focus Podcast
Vietnam's M&A market put in a strong performance in 2022, despite signs of the global economy fighting against a falling tide. Total deal volume for 2022 dropped by 19% year-on-year to 62 transactions (down from 77 in 2021),...more
Financial institutions M&A sector trends: credit cards/consumer finance — H1 2019 and outlook for H2 2019. CURRENT MARKET - Consistent, marginal upward. WE ARE SEEING - New market entrants securing funding from...more
We were pretty sure that the Fed would keep interest rates steady as it wrapped its Open Market Committee meetings yesterday, and Fed Chair Powell delivered on that expectation. He also admitted that the same lack of...more
Consumer finance:* Credit cards/Consumer credit - Deal activity involving credit card businesses blooms—trade consolidators, financial sponsors and big banks see opportunities - Buyers scrutinise historic compliance...more
If there is one truism in the world of digital media, it is the simple fact that our technology and consumption habits are evolving in tandem with one another and at an exponential rate. This compounding effect of innovation...more
We learned yesterday that Twitter’s shopping itself around for a buyer. It’s facing one big complication, though—the sizeable amount of stock Twitter has doled out to its employees over the years. Last year, for example,...more
In December 2013, Israel introduced new legislation — the Law for the Promotion of Competition and Reduction of Concentration — designed to break the dominance of large corporations and strengthen competition in the country’s...more
Everything’s coming up Saudi these days, as Uber revealed this week that it turned to the Middle East for a $3.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund—the kingdom’s “main investment fund”—as part of...more
Recently, in Davidson v. Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 14714 (11th Cir. Aug. 21, 2015), the 11th Circuit held that banks do not qualify as “debt collectors” under the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act...more