New York enacts surcharge law
Payments Dive
JANUARY 3, 2024
The state’s new law will force merchants to limit credit card surcharges and more clearly disclose them to consumers. If the businesses don’t, they could face a $500 penalty.
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Payments Dive
JANUARY 3, 2024
The state’s new law will force merchants to limit credit card surcharges and more clearly disclose them to consumers. If the businesses don’t, they could face a $500 penalty.
Payments Dive
APRIL 25, 2024
Kansas has joined a pack of states in passing a law backed by earned wage access providers, as regulations for the industry remain a contentious issue.
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Payments Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
This week, Wisconsin became the third state to pass a law requiring that earned wage access providers be licensed, and leaving the payments unregulated under lending laws.
Payments Dive
AUGUST 23, 2023
New Jersey’s governor signed a new law capping credit card surcharges, limiting the amount merchants can charge for processing a transaction.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
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Payments Dive
JUNE 16, 2023
Backers of the law establishing a licensing process for earned wage access providers operating in the state say it’s the first of its kind in the U.S.
Payments Dive
JUNE 20, 2023
Nevada’s new law on earned wage access increases the importance of hearing more from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about its view of the growing on-demand pay trend.
Perficient
AUGUST 16, 2020
In today’s blog, we’ll cover what these two laws/acts entail so you can start planning for these new requirements around E-911. Kari’s Law. This law was signed on February 16, 2018, and officially went into effect on February 16, 2020. On March 23, 2018, the President signed the RAY BAUM’S Act into law.
PYMNTS
APRIL 1, 2020
“This legislation represents a significant breakthrough – the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith said in the post. In our view, this required a legal floor of responsibility, governed by the rule of law,” Smith said.
CFPB Monitor
MAY 4, 2023
On April 12, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum signed into law House Bill 1068 , which creates a new statutory licensing scheme in North Dakota covering residential mortgage loan servicing activities.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
California voters passed Proposition 22, which exempts tech platforms like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash from state law AB 5, which forced them to reclassify gig workers as employees, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday (Nov. Instead of abiding by the law, companies banded together to support Proposition 22. .
CFPB Monitor
JANUARY 29, 2024
Helbing and his businesses Helbing Law, LLC, and Consumer Law Relief, LLC. Respondents) to resolve alleged violations of the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (UTPCPL), the Pennsylvania Debt Settlement Services Act (DSSA), and the federal Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR).
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Uber trips will jump 24 percent in cost starting in the new year in Seattle, with the rideshare company raising prices to accommodate a new law requiring drivers be paid the city's minimum wage, GeekWire reported. minimum wage in 2021.
PYMNTS
JULY 11, 2019
In a first-ever congressional hearing on marijuana law reform, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security convened July 10 to debate altering federal law around cannabis, CNBC reports. The spread of legal cannabis has major payments problems because federal law considers the drug illegal.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Russia's federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has accused Booking.com of reportedly violating antitrust laws in the country and abusing a dominant market position, according to Reuters Monday (Dec.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 19, 2020
19) that antitrust laws “clearly apply” to Big Tech and should continue to apply to their market power. The news comes as Reuters reported earlier in the month that Delrahim , who is the Justice Department’s leading enforcer of antitrust laws, is likely to leave his post early next calendar year regardless of the Nov.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Jeremy Kress, a law professor at the University of Michigan, filed a petition for rulemaking to two bank regulators, asking them to adopt an unaffiliated director standard for larger banks to address conflicts of interest between banks and their holding companies.
PYMNTS
JULY 13, 2020
A new law could make it easier for businesses to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and remain open, with more leverage for small businesses and easier ways to force negotiations with suppliers and landlords, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
CFPB Monitor
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
On November 2, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a report on the community reinvestment laws of seven states (Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, West Virginia), and the District of Columbia that evaluate the record of state-chartered financial institutions and other lenders in meeting the credit (..)
CFPB Monitor
MAY 4, 2022
The law now awaits the Governor’s signature. The CTDPA follows the form and content of other privacy laws passed in the prior year, including the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), and Utah Privacy Act (UPA). All of these laws will become effective in 2023. Exemptions.
CFPB Monitor
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Two recently-passed bills in California, Assembly Bill 2311 (“AB 2311”) and Senate Bill 1311 (”SB 1311”), were signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 13 and September 27, respectively, placing new restrictions on the sale of Guaranteed Asset Protection (“GAP”) waivers in California. 10 USC § 987(i)(6).
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Gavin Newsom signed into law a controversial bill that could reclassify ridesharing and other gig economy workers as employees instead of independent contractors, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday (Sept. New York has already tackled the gig economy issue by passing a minimum wage law. It was the first law in the U.S.
CFPB Monitor
MAY 2, 2022
Businesses with automatic renewal contracts—including subscriptions—should take note of Colorado’s new law that went into effect earlier this year on January 1, 2022. Under the Colorado law, any automatic renewal contract must make the renewal terms and cancellation policy “clear and conspicuous” before the contract is accepted.
CFPB Monitor
JULY 24, 2023
Minnesota recently enacted the Commerce Omnibus Finance Bill , which includes amendments to several provisions of Minnesota law related to consumer loans and financial institutions.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Uber is weighing contingency plans that could dramatically shrink its California operations should a ballot campaign aimed at revoking a controversial state labor law fall short on Election Day. Uber and Lyft face nearly $400 million in increased labor costs should the law go into effect as planned on Jan. 1, Reuters has estimated.
CFPB Monitor
JUNE 28, 2023
On June 13, Nevada’s governor signed into law Senate Bill 290 creating the nation’s first statutory framework for earned wage access (EWA) providers operating in the state. The law appoints the state’s Commissioner of Financial Institutions to oversee the industry.
CFPB Monitor
DECEMBER 8, 2022
In early November, Pennsylvania amended its data breach notification law broadening the definition of personal information. state data breach notification laws. This amendment also brings Pennsylvania law into alignment with other states, such as California, that have a similar definition of personal information.
The Paypers
APRIL 18, 2024
Authorities in Norway have revealed their intention to introduce a new data centre law aimed at regulating operations within these facilities.
Payments Dive
OCTOBER 23, 2023
“Big gaps in the law” are leaving the financially vulnerable open to harms from digital payments, one law professor argues in a recent Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy paper.
CFPB Monitor
JUNE 12, 2023
As anticipated, on June 5, 2023, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law Colorado HB23-1229 , which will exclude consumer loans made in Colorado from the provisions of Section 521 of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 (DIDA) (codified at 12 U.S.C.
CFPB Monitor
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
As readers may recall, California previously attempted to enact a “Digital Financial Assets Law” with the introduction of AB 2269 in February 2022.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Different sections for a draft of the law were released last summer. The law would also supersede state laws and disallow them from setting their own standards, in effect standardizing regulations nationwide.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Ecuador ’s government has rushed a draft privacy law to Congress after the nation was hit with a massive data breach impacting more than 20 million people. While Ecuador had been working on a data privacy law for nearly two years, the breach prompted the government to finish its work and send the draft law to parliament.
PYMNTS
MARCH 11, 2020
A new proposed law in Delaware would make it illegal for businesses to only accept cash, according to a report by the Associated Press. The legislators also pointed out that there is no current law forcing businesses to accept cash. The Massachusetts law was passed almost four decades ago.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
It accomplishes that by threatening a critical immunity named Section 230 that firms have with federal law. Federal law enforcement agencies, for their part, have reportedly said those encryptions hamper their probes. News of the upcoming proposed legislation comes as the a source from the U.S.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2019
A new law in California requires companies to explain exactly what customer information, if any, is being sold to third parties, according to a report by Reuters. The new law goes into effect on Jan. Some retailers are saying compliance will be difficult because of the law’s unclear language.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Under the proposed new law, citizens would be able to change their ID number if a data breach would possibly expose them to identity theft. The current law makes it difficult to change a personal identity code. The current law makes it difficult to change a personal identity code.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Uber and Lyft are organizing and pushing back against a California law that takes effect on Jan. The law created a test that a company has to pass to figure out whether workers can be classified as contractors or not. The coalition has amassed about $100 million to run a campaign to exempt them from the law.
CFPB Monitor
MARCH 8, 2022
Following the lead of California, Colorado, and Virginia, Utah is set to become the fourth state to pass a comprehensive privacy law. The law does not include a private right of action; rather, it will be enforced by the Utah AG. If signed, the law will go into effect December 31, 2023.
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