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Feds' suit depicts predatory mortgage lending in the social media age

American Banker

The developer used TikTok and other social media sites to lure Hispanic immigrants into predatory loans, the government alleges. The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are suing a real estate developer over an alleged bait-and-switch land-sale scheme near Houston.

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Executive Order Looms For Social Media Firms On Content? 

PYMNTS

The summary, according to the site, would direct the FCC to develop new regulations that would detail how the law may protect social media platforms as they move to take content off their sites – and to take those new regulations into account when investigating or filing suit against those firms. CFPB and Payday Lending.

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How to Write a Social Media Policy for Your Financial Institution

Long Lasting Ideas

The expansion of social media in the workplace and for personal use has made it vital for financial institutions to include a specific social media policy within its policies and procedures. 8 Steps to Create Your Social Media Policy. IBM Social Computing Guidelines. Social Media Policy Database.

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Personalized Marketing: What Banking Customers Really Want

Perficient

blockchain​, digital wallets​, money center banks​, emerging payment solutions, digital lending​, economic turmoil​, and fintech disintermediation). Not to mention, institutions face new, more sophisticated threats every day that defy the ways in which they’ve traditionally conducted business (i.e.,

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New York Dept. of Financial Services announces fair lending agreement with nonbank mortgage lender and releases redlining report

CFPB Monitor

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Hunt Mortgage , a licensed mortgage banker, to address the DFS’s findings that there was a “demonstrable lack of lending to minorities and in majority-minority neighborhoods in Western and Central New York by Hunt Mortgage.”

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

Gonzobanker

Thankfully, there was still a smartphone and social media to commiserate. Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Then, bad grades came in right as summer party season kicked off, mom and dad took away the car and credit card, and the Venmo transfers came to a screeching halt.

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Cleveland Fed Pulls P2P Lending Report for ‘Revision’ Over Questions on Data

Bank Innovation

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has taken a report on P2P lending offline due to questions regarding the report’s underlying data.

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