This Week in FCPA-Episode 80, The Last Jedi Edition
Bill on Bankruptcy: Supreme Court Cases Will Have Wide Impact
Wayward Financial Institutions Facing Increasingly Stricter Punishment
Grassley: HSBC Should Face Criminal Charges
Due to the recent challenging economic environment, the law’s treatment of creditors’ interests in a restructuring or insolvency has been a hot topic. From a creditor’s perspective, its objective will be straightforward: to...more
A federal district court in Oklahoma recently dismissed a putative class action asserting that defendants’ credit card debt collection activities violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”). The case, Walkabout...more
A lender’s entitlement to a make-whole premium, that is, a prepayment penalty designed to compensate the lender for the loss of interest payments it would have received had the borrower continued to service the debt through...more