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The Earned Wage Access Boom: Sixteen States Propose Legislation to Regulate These Types of Products

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Since the beginning of 2025, sixteen states have proposed legislation to regulate earned wage access. These states would join Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, which have each enacted legislation to...more

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CFPB Rescinds 2020 Advisory Opinion on Earned Wage Access Products

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As part of a flurry of last minute regulatory activity by the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau), on January 15, the CFPB published an advisory opinion in the Federal Register...more

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New Year = New Earned Wage Access Legislation in New York

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This week, New York became the latest state to introduce legislation aimed at regulating Earned Wage Access (EWA) services. Assembly Bill 258 titled — “An Act to Amend the Banking Law, in Relation to Providing for Income...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Earned Wage Access Products would be “Credit” under CFPB Proposed Interpretive Rule

On July 18, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a proposed interpretive rule on earned wage access (EWA) products (“Proposed Interpretive Rule”) that, if finalized, would clarify that EWA products are...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Fintech trade group sends letter to Director Chopra urging CFPB to develop regulatory approach for earned wage access products

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The American Fintech Council (AFC), a trade group whose members include providers of earned wage access (EWA) products, has sent a letter to Director Chopra urging the CFPB to take steps towards development of a “pragmatic...more

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