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California Bill Would Deem Some Lenders As Licensed

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California generally requires that persons engaged in the business of making loans be licensed.  If not licensed under some other statute (such as the banking, credit union or residential mortgage lending laws), a lender will...more

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California Bill Would Establish Registration Program With Respect To Commercial Financing Or Commercial Financing Brokerage...

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Recently, I wrote about the California Office of Administrative Law's rejection of regulations proposed by the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation.  These proposed regulations were intended to "implement,...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - April 2024 # 5

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

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DFPI Issues 2023 CCFPL Report

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Last week the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation issued a report of its activities under the California Consumer Financial Protection Law.   The California legislature enacted the CCFPL in 2020 for the...more

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It's Lupercalia! CFL Annual Reports Are Due In 30 Days

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Each year, licensees under the California Financing Law (Cal. Fin. Code § 22000 et seq.) must file an annual report with the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation.  The report is due on the Ides of March (the Ides...more

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California DFPI Orders Consumer Financing Platform To Cease Hidden Junk Fees

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On January 9, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) issued an order against a consumer financing platform that enables merchants to offer installment contracts to their customers. The...more

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CFPB comments on California DFPI licensing provisions, income-based advances

On December 1, the CFPB posted a blog entry sharing its comment letter responding to the California DFPI’s notice of proposed rulemaking for “income-based advances” from earlier this year....more

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DFPI orders investment firms to desist and refrain

On November 16, under California Corporations Code § 25532, the California Division of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) issued a desist and refrain order against a securities investment platform for allegedly making...more

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Court Ruling Deals Blow To DFPI's "True Lender" Theory

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While the California Financing Law defines "finance lender", it does so in a very open-ended and nonspecific manner.  Cal. Fin. Code § 22009 ("'Finance lender' includes any person who is engaged in the business of making...more

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Will New DFPI Lending Rules Reduce The Availability And Raise The Cost Of Small Business Loans In California?

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Three years ago, Governor Newsom signed AB 1864 into law.  This legislation gave the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation the authority to define unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices in connection with...more

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Daily Financial Regulation Update -- Saturday, June 10, 2023

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June 9, 2023- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced a request for information to gather input on a proposed annual trust survey with the goal of understanding, measuring, and tracking the public's...more

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DFPI, Fed to oversee bank’s self-liquidation

On June 1, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced that it issued a joint cease-and-desist order with the Federal Reserve Board to fulfill the voluntary liquidation of a...more

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DFPI Issues Self-Assessment Of Its Oversight And Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank

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Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation published a 74-page report on its oversight and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank.  As explained in this earlier post, the bank was a state chartered...more

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Will California's Bank Failures May Shine A Spotlight On California Corporate Law?

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As has been widely reported, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation announced that it has taken possession of another California chartered bank - First Republic Bank.  This is the second California...more

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DFPI cracks down on crypto platforms’ AI claims

On April 19, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced enforcement actions against five separate entities and an individual for allegedly offering and selling unqualified securities and...more

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California's Commercial Loan Disclosure Requirements May Be Unconstitutional And/Or Preempted

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I have devoted several posts to a California commercial loan disclosure law that was enacted in 2018 - SB 1235 (Glazer).  Although the bill became effective on January 1, 2019, lenders were not obligated to comply until the...more

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First A Failed Bank, Now A Spoofed Bank

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The closure of Silicon Valley Bank has understandably attracted a lot of attention.  There are, however, other ways to lose money when banking.  The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation recently issued...more

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What Was The DFPI's Role In Failure Of Silicon Valley Bank?

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Silicon Valley Bank was chartered by the State of California and was subject to the supervision of the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation.  The DFPI was not the bank's regulator.  The bank had adopted...more

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In the Wake of the Demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank: What Fintechs, Private Equity, and Banks Need To Know

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On Friday, March 10, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) closed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the subsidiary of SVB Financial. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was appointed...more

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Addressing Legal Issues Related to the Silicon Valley Bank Closure

On March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) appointed as receiver....more

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Bank Runs And Bank Libels

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The big financial news on Friday was the failure of Silicon Valley Bank.  According to the DFPI's order, an announcement of a capital raise by the bank triggered a run on the bank...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - March 2023

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To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week...more

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DFPI releases modified proposed California Consumer Financial Protection Law regulations addressing certain commercial...

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On February 24, 2023, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) released a Notice containing modifications to previously proposed regulations addressing the Consumer Financial Protection Law...more

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How Not To Get Your Start In Banking

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The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation recently issued a warning about "individual or individuals on YouTube claiming that individuals can form their own “private banks” and become “individual bankers”...more

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Focus on Fintech – Q4 2022

In this latest issue of Wilson Sonsini's Focus on Fintech newsletter, we discuss the FTX bankruptcy and the increased federal regulatory scrutiny of crypto assets, and new rules and innovations in the payments...more

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