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Taking It to the Bank: Why Fintechs Are Racing for Bank Charters — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Warning Letters and Warren Letters: What the Auto Finance Industry Needs to Know — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Before You Front the Funds: Benefits and Pitfalls of Earned Wage Access Tools — Hiring to Firing Podcast
TCPA Risk Reloaded: Why DNC and Consent Issues Are Fueling the Next Wave of Litigation — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Important CRA Lesson from OCC proposal for all Intermediate-Small and Large Banks
Year in Review and Look Ahead: Servicing and Collections in Flux – How States, Reg F, and Coerced Debt Laws Are Rewriting the Playbook — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Beyond the Buzzwords: Building Bank-Fintech Partnerships That Survive Exams — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Auto Finance Year in Review, Part 1: From FTC CARS Rule Collapse to a State-Led Patchwork — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Lions, Tigers, and Sovereign Citizens, Oh My! UCC and Banking Litigation Trends and a 2026 Forecast — The Consumer Finance Podcast
[Video] New Regulatory Priorities Under Mayor Mamdani’s NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
Turning Point for Digital Assets: 2025 Year in Review and What Comes Next — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Year in Review and Look Ahead: Fair Lending and UDAAP in the Trump 2.0 Era — Federal Pullback, State Pushback, and What Comes Next — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Year in Review and Look Ahead Announcement — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Bridging the Gap between Cautious Buyers and Eager Sellers
Signs of Life at the CFPB — The Consumer Finance Podcast
On April 13, 2026, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed the bipartisan bill SB338, amending the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) by prohibiting data controllers from selling or offering for sale a...more
In this joint episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Payments Pros, guest host Taylor Gess is joined by Stefanie Jackman to discuss amended debt collection regulations and restrictions for creditors, including tight...more
CalPrivacy (formerly the California Privacy Protection Agency), announced recently that it intends to begin auditing businesses’ compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In February 2026, CalPrivacy...more
Oregon has followed Washington in enacting an AI companion law. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2027. AI companions are defined as those that are simulate sustained, human-like relationships with a user. The law...more
A federal court just granted approval to a TCPA class action settlement involving messages sent by GoldCo using the Call Loop text platform. The Plaintiff claimed Gold Co had sent messages to himself and others on the DNC...more
Within days of taking office this year, New York City Mayor Mamdani signed an executive order entitled Fighting Subscription Tricks and Traps, which directed the City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) to...more
On April 8, 2026, Alabama’s legislature passed House Bill 351, the Alabama Personal Data Protection Act (the APDPA), which now goes to Alabama’s governor, Kay Ivey, for signature. If signed, the law will take effect May 1,...more
Entities subject to California’s new Digital Financial Assets Law (“DFAL”), signed by Governor Newsom on October 13, 2023, must either be licensed or have applied through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (“NMLS”)...more
Influencer marketing has outgrown its early days of buried “#sp” tags and fuzzy disclosure practices. It’s now a core advertising channel driving billions in spend—and, unsurprisingly, continues to draw scrutiny from...more
Last week, a federal judge in the Northern District of California ruled on Uber’s motion to dismiss a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging deceptive practices in connection with its Uber One...more
Nebraska enacted LB 717 on February 25, 2026, amending multiple aspects of Nebraska consumer finance law. Among other changes, the bill expands the scope of loans covered under the Nebraska Installment Loan and Sales Act...more
The most consequential risks facing consumer goods manufacturers rarely originate in the legal department. Instead, they arise upstream in the gaps between what the regulatory team believes state and federal laws require,...more
On April 8, 2026, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed House Bill 1596 (“HB 1596” or the “Act”) into law, creating the “Data Security for Money Transmitters Act” (“DSMTA”), a new freestanding law imposing data security...more
Regulators have been steadily tightening the screws on “junk fees” across the economy — from hotel resort fees to “service” and other charges when buying live event tickets. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule on unfair...more
This week marks an important new chapter in the self-regulation of advertising in the United States. Yesterday, the Center for Industry Self-Regulation's Institute for Responsible Influence (IRI) announced the launch of a new...more
On April 9, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine announced a proposed rule that would make New York City the first municipality in the...more
On April 14, 2026, announced were three Federal Trade Commission law enforcement actions involving three companies that allegedly deceived American consumers by falsely claiming, in advertising and labeling, that their...more
What Happened? On March 27, 2026, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law SB 8811 (Chapter 94 of the Laws of 2026), a chapter amendment relating to the Attorney General’s ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair,...more
The plaintiffs’ bar has been ramping up lawsuits for alleged violations of state and federal wiretapping laws (e.g., California CIPA, Florida SCA, Federal ECPA) for many months now. Historically, the main issue has been that...more
A consumer received an allegedly unwanted call from “Alex from Alibaba.” So he sued Alibaba. Alibaba’s literal response: it could have been any Alibaba, how do you know it was us?...more
During a panel at the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit, privacy regulators offered candid insights into how they are enforcing privacy laws and laid breadcrumbs for building a compliance program that minimizes legal risks....more
At the end of March, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, along with the state’s Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, issued a press release regarding an...more
Le 12 mars 2026, le gouvernement du Manitoba a présenté le projet de loi 49, Loi modifiant la Loi sur les pratiques commerciales (le « projet de loi »). Ce projet de loi, qui a trait à l’utilisation croissante de la...more
Key Takeaways - The Washington Supreme Court recently ruled against a plaintiff’s claims that the originally listed price of an on-sale article of clothing was deceptive and constituted a “false discounting scheme.”...more
A new lawsuit filed in mid‑March 2026 by New York Attorney General Letitia James, joined by a bipartisan coalition of 12 other state attorneys general (AGs), challenges the sale of loan add‑ons and related refinancing...more