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Financial Services Report – Winter 2020

Happy post-election, post-socially-distanced Thanksgiving, and pre-New Year’s newsletter. Banks, non-banks, and FinTechs can look forward to eight days of announcements from the Biden transition team with their latkes and...more

CFPB Seeks Input On Improving Access To Credit

On August 3, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks comment on ways to clarify the Equal Credit Opportunity Act’s (ECOA) implementing regulation, Regulation...more

Will The True Lender Please Stand? – OCC Proposes “True Lender” Bright-Line Rule

On July 20, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would establish when national banks or federal savings associations (collectively, banks) are the “true lender”...more

NY Governor Cuomo Orders Power To Require Waiver Of Deposit Fees During COVID-19 Emergency

As Congress scrambles to pass a stimulus package to alleviate financial strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal regulators and some states are directing financial institutions to provide immediate relief. So far,...more

FDIC Publishes Brokered Deposits Proposed Rule

On February 10, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published a proposed rule intended to modernize the regulatory treatment of brokered deposits (Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule would amend 12 C.F.R....more

After Madden, OCC and FDIC Propose to Reaffirm “Valid When Made” Rule

On November 18, 2019, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) took action to reaffirm the “valid when made” doctrine in response to the uncertainty on the validity of interest rates of bank-originated loans sold...more

Assembly Bill 539 and the Future of Consumer Loans in California

The California legislature is poised to cap rates on larger consumer installment loans. Assembly Bill 539 has passed the state Assembly and the state Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions. Although directed...more

CFPB Requests Comment on Overdraft Rule

On May 15, 2019, the CFPB published a Request for Comment on its Overdraft Rule (“Rule”) to assist the agency in determining whether the Rule should be revised, rescinded, or left as is. Originally published in November 2009...more

CFPB Initiates Fourth Review of the Consumer Credit Card Market

On January 31, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a Request for Information (2019 RFI) regarding the consumer credit card market. In accordance with Section 502(a) of the Credit Card...more

CFPB Announces Settlement for Violations of the EFTA and CFPA

On January 3, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a settlement with a federal savings bank for alleged violations of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) and Regulation E, as well as alleged...more

Financial Services Report – Summer 2018

BELTWAY - The Wayback Machine - Congress passed, and on May 24, 2018, the president signed into law, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S.2155). The law makes significant changes to...more

CFPB Issues RFI on Inherited Regulations

On March 26, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or “Bureau”) published a Request for Information (RFI) on the CFPB’s inherited regulations and inherited rulemaking authorities. The RFI is the ninth in a...more

Acting Comptroller Endorses Fintech Charters

In July 19, 2017 remarks prepared for delivery to the Exchequer Club in Washington, D.C., Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika expressed his support for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (“OCC”)...more

OCC Releases Semiannual Risk Perspective: Fintech is Risky?

On July 7, 2017, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) released its Semiannual Risk Perspective report (the “Report”) identifying the risks faced by national banks and federal savings associations in the ...more

U.S. House of Representatives Passes the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017

On June 8, 2017, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (the “CHOICE Act”) was passed on a party line vote by the U.S. House of Representatives, with nearly all Republicans voting in support and nearly all Democrats voting against...more

CFPB Initiates Third CARD Act Review

On March 10, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a Request for Information (2017 RFI) regarding the consumer credit card market. In accordance with Section 502(a) of the Credit Card...more

OCC Announces Special Purpose National Bank Charter for FinTech Companies

On December 2, 2016, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry confirmed that the agency will begin considering applications from FinTech companies to become special purpose national banks, saying that the OCC will charter...more

CFPB Requests Information Regarding Data Aggregation Services

On November 17, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) held a field hearing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and published a Request for Information (“RFI”) regarding access to consumer financial account...more

OCC Announces Preliminary Framework on FinTech and Responsible Innovation

On March 31, 2016, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) released a white paper on financial technology innovation (“White Paper”), which lays out a preliminary framework for “responsible innovation.” The...more

CFPB Finalizes Rule Suspending Quarterly Submission of Credit Card Agreements

On April 15, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced a final rule (“Final Rule”) that suspends for one year the requirement under the Truth in Lending Act and implemented by Regulation Z that credit...more

Financial Services Report - Spring 2015

In This Issue: - Beltway Report - Bureau Report - Mobile & Emerging Payments Report - Mortgage & Fair Lending Report - Operations Report - Preemption Report - Privacy...more

Financial Services Report - Winter 2014

In This Issue: - Beltway Report - Bureau Report - Mobile & Emerging Payments Report - Mortgage & Fair Lending Report - Operations Report - Preemption Report - Privacy...more

Overview of the CFPB Prepaid Account Proposed Rule

On November 13, 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a proposed rule to regulate prepaid accounts (the “Proposed Rule”). The Proposed Rule follows the CFPB’s May 2012 advance notice of proposed...more

DOD Proposes Significant Expansion of Military Lending Act Protections

On September 29, 2014, the Department of Defense (DOD) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend its regulation implementing the Military Lending Act (MLA), 32 C.F.R. Part 232, to significantly expand the...more

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