Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Evolving Collection Rules Impacting Creditors — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Getting E-SIGN and UETA Right in Electronic Contracting — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Charting a Course for Collections: Diagnosing Compliance and Privacy Risks in Medical Debt — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Price Tags and Pitfalls: Inside the FTC–Maryland Dealer Smackdown — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Bankruptcy 101 for Consumer Creditors: Automatic Stays, Discharge Injunctions, and Common Pitfalls — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Fair Lending Risks at the Checkout Counter — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Evolving Collection Rules Impacting Creditors — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Auto Finance Year in Review, Part 2: Security Clearances, Supervisory Lines, and Connected Cars — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Fair Lending Risks at the Checkout Counter — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Podcast - The FTC and Consumer Online Transactions
No Password Required: Project Manager at Rapid7 and Queen of Cyber Media
Before You Front the Funds: Benefits and Pitfalls of Earned Wage Access Tools — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
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
On May 1, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) issued its final rule substantially revising subpart B of Regulation B, which implements section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more
California companies may have less time than they think to prepare for privacy audits. The California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CPPA) new Audits Division, created in February 2026, is expected to begin assessing companies’...more
Fashion, beauty, and wearable technology brands are heading into 2026 with a lot more to think about concerning data privacy. What used to feel like a back-end legal issue is now shaping how companies design products,...more
In the category of how technology can be fun, yet dangerous, a 19 year old college student alleges that the dating app Meete took a video she innocently posted on TikTok of her high school graduation, then “overlayed it with...more
On April 22, the NYDFS issued an industry letter reminding entities regulated under the New York Banking Law of their obligations under Section 296-a of the New York Executive Law, New York’s fair lending statute. The letter...more
On April 10, the FDIC rescinded prior supervisory guidance addressing multiple non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees arising from the re-presentment of the same unpaid transaction. The rescinded guidance had previously outlined the...more
On May 1, the DFPI announced in its May Monthly Bulletin that it had obtained its first administrative decision affirming a California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) action. The desist and refrain order involved...more
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On May 4, 2026, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) adopted the Model Franchise Broker Registration Act (the Model Act), a nonbinding framework intended to address regulatory gaps in the oversight...more
New data from Gartner estimates that U.S. state privacy fines reached $3.4B in 2025 — more than the prior five years of state privacy fines combined — with continued enforcement growth expected through 2028....more
A recent review of civil filings in Washington, DC reveals a conspicuous pattern challenging strike-through pricing: a single nonprofit plaintiff, represented by a small group of attorneys, has filed more than 150 lawsuits...more
Maryland AG Anthony Brown and North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson announced separate settlements with Mylan resolving allegations that the company used anticompetitive tactics to maintain EpiPen’s market dominance and drive up...more
On April 28, 2026, Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed House Bill 895, the Protection From Predatory Pricing Act (the Act). In passing the Act, Maryland becomes the first state to regulate personalized pricing, also...more
Senate Approves Ban on Prediction Market Trading and Introduces Additional Standards - On April 29, the Senate unanimously agreed on a resolution banning Senators and their staff from using prediction markets, effective...more
The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement has rapidly turned food additive regulation from a niche issue into a mainstream political and business priority. Longstanding debates over ingredient safety, chemical...more
A snapshot of key market and regulatory developments expected to impact the UK insurance sector between now and the end of the year. During 2026 Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024: It is expected that the...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a statement announcing it is launching a review of the claims management market, prompted by concerns that some claims management companies (CMCs) and law firms are...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced the creation of a joint regulatory taskforce—with the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Information Commissioner's Office and Advertising Standards Authority—to tackle poor...more
Hogan Lovells' Retail and Fashion team attended “The Future of AI” webinar hosted by Vogue Business on May 7, 2026. The webinar explored key findings from Vogue Business' multi-part “Future of AI” series, which included a...more
New York AG Letitia James reached a $5 million settlement with cryptocurrency platform Uphold HQ Inc. for allegedly misleading investors while promoting CredEarn, a crypto investment product from now-collapsed Cred LLC, in...more
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) efforts to combat illegal robocalling are poised to expand soon, with the FCC adopting a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (KYC FNPRM) by a 3-0 vote at the April 30, 2026 FCC...more
Five more states—Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Vermont—joined California AG Rob Bonta’s lawsuit challenging Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA, making the coalition bipartisan....more
Restaurants, retailers, grocers, convenience stores, and other businesses that accept cash should prepare for a practical operational shift at the register: as pennies become harder to obtain, exact change may not always be...more
When Congress deregulated the U.S. domestic airline industry in 1978, it included a provision in the law to prevent individual states from undoing, through their own regulation, that which Congress sought to achieve at the...more
Connecticut AG William Tong praised the state General Assembly’s passage of Senate Bill 5, which was proposed in part by his office and Governor Ned Lamont to curb addictive social media features for minors and strengthen...more
