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California DFPI's Next Target: Credit Reporting Industry — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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No Password Required: Social Media Security and Governance Leader and Lover of All Beagles
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Point-of-Sale Finance Series: The New Regulatory Reality for Small Business Financing and Trade Credit — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Payments Year in Review 2025: Federal and State Developments – Part 2 – Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Federal Shake-Ups and the Rise of Income Share Agreements in Student Loan Financing — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Compliance 911 Show
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New Jersey's Big Bet on Disparate Impact: What the AG's New Rules Mean for Lenders and AI — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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Payments Year in Review 2025: Federal and State Developments – Part 1 — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
State AGs in the Driver’s Seat: Auto Finance Enforcement in the Trump 2.0 Era — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
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New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James reached a $2.5 million settlement with health insurer EmblemHealth following an investigation of the behavioral health provider “ghost networks.” “Ghost networks” are provider...more
In Johnson v. Comodo Group, 2026 WL 296417 (D. N.J. Feb. 4, 2026) the court approved a class action settlement agreement whereby Comodo will pay $1,625,000 to settle the case, with average recovery of approximately $596 for...more
Spurgeon & Ors v Capita plc [2026] EWHC 241 (KB) (9 February 2026). The High Court has refused an application to strike out compensation claims brought by around 4,000 individuals affected by the Capita data security breach....more
The proposed Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is the most significant attempt to overhaul federal online child safety laws since the passage of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in 1998....more
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued a significant Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) decision in Bradford v. Sovereign Pest Control of TX, Inc., No. 24-20379, Doc. 85-1 (5th Cir. Feb. 25,...more
Data brokers are lining up to comply with California’s one-stop deletion tool requirement under the Delete Act, and the numbers signal a major shift in how privacy rights may be exercised and enforced in California starting...more
The FCA is consulting on some of the FCA-led remedies from the package of measures set out in the December 2023 final report on its Credit Information Market Study (CIMS). These include proposed new mandatory reporting...more
On February 24, a California state court issued a preliminary decision granting summary judgement to a financial technology platform in litigation brought by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation...more
During the first Trump administration, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop on informational injuries, and on February 26, 2026, the agency revisited the issue in a workshop on “Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the...more
The UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published an invitation to comment on a revised draft questionnaire for a proposed survey of UK merchants as part of its review of cross border interchange fee remedies. The survey...more
On February 24, 2026, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) outlining a “common sense approach” to the Clean Air Act’s (CAA) Risk Management Program (RMP)....more
New York has taken a significant step toward comprehensive regulation of buy now, pay later (BNPL) by requiring licensure and disclosures designed for credit cards, even though BNPL transactions are closed end....more
Recent state AG actions are no longer regulatory background noise, they are shaping how companies can use data, roll out AI, set prices, and structure ESG and DEI programs. Our latest newsletter highlights a series of...more
On February 23, 2026, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) proposed new regulations to implement the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Act enacted in May of last year. If adopted, the proposed rule would regulate the...more
Welcome to this month’s issue of The BR Privacy, Security & AI Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice. We invite you to share this resource with your colleagues....more
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