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Unintended Consequences of Aggressive Regulation

Jeff For Banks

The period analyzed was immediately prior to the commencement of CFPB oversight in 2011, and afterward. The first was regulator arbitrage, where a bank decides to have an activity regulated by one entity rather than another because of the perception that the chosen regulator will be less risky to them. This is good.

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Growing Ratings Data Overwhelms Regulators

PYMNTS

securities regulator is having trouble with rating agencies because it doesn’t have the tools or specific knowledge it needs to analyze huge amounts of rating data, according to a report from Reuters. The SEC said the problems DERA faced were “generally resolved,” and that other departments pitched in to help.

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Ag lending risk increasing as result of declining incomes

Abrigo

Although loan volumes have increased steadily since 2011, recent increases have coincided with a period of declining farm income,” said a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. This growth continues the trend from the first quarter of 2015 , which saw an increase of eight percent year over year.

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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market

PYMNTS

That’s because, particularly in the last five years or so, CashCall’s existence has become somewhat more legally fraught as it increasingly faces the ire of consumer groups, judges and regulators over the products it offers. The plaintiffs borrowed from CashCall at rates of 96 percent or 135 percent between 2004 and 2011.

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CFPB’s New Study Notes Bank Fees As A Hidden Cost Of Payday Lending

PYMNTS

As the nation waits and drama builds over expected new guidelines from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on short-term lending, the government watchdog has issued a new report that indicates that the high cost of payday loans is even higher than most people think.

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David Silberman resigns from CFPB

CFPB Monitor

He will also teach a course on consumer finance regulation at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy and at Harvard Law School in the next academic year.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How Fintechs Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Regulation

FICO

The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And so it’s easy to see why a fintech company — believing fully in the virtue of its mission and faced with a litany of illogical and intractable regulations — might just say "F*ck it, we're doing it anyways." and China). A Prediction for the 2020s. Brand protection.