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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

South State Correspondent

Barings Bank, Orange County (CA), Enron, Long-Term Capital Management, and other entities misused derivatives or didn’t understand the difference between hedging and speculating. No additional reporting or regulatory compliance for the lender or the borrower. No ISDA documents. Virtually no ongoing or upfront costs.

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CA DFPI issues modifications to proposed regulations to implement 2018 law requiring consumer-like disclosures for commercial financing

CFPB Monitor

SB 1235, codified at CA Financial Code (Code) sections 22800-22805, requires a “provider,” meaning a person who extends a specific offer of “commercial financing” as defined in Code section 22800(d) to a recipient, to give the recipient certain disclosures at the time the provider extends the offer. Signature requirements.

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CA regulator invites comments on proposed rulemaking to implement new law requiring commercial financing disclosures

CFPB Monitor

Types of commercial financing (The DBO asks for examples of transactions other than fixed-rate, fixed-payment financing that are subject to SB 1235 (noting such examples may include merchant cash advances and recourse and non-recourse factoring), anticipated compliance obstacles in such transactions, and how the DBO can address such obstacles.).

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FinTech Could Be Hurt By Fight Between OCC And States

PYMNTS

The charter is optional for FinTechs and is aimed at providing a stamp of approval by the OCC for having good compliance practices. In essence with the charter, the government could weed out the good FinTechs from the bad ones.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

According to the CFPB, the new members “include experts in consumer protection, financial services, community development, fair lending, civil rights, consumer financial products or services, representatives of community banks and credit unions, and scholars with relevant methodological and subject matter experience.”

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Lawmakers Urge CFPB To Ease Up On Small Banks

PYMNTS

Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Steve Stivers (R-OH) and included the signatures of 329 lawmakers. “Where we can customize our rules to treat smaller institutions differently in light of their compliance burdens and the level of risk they pose, we have done so and will continue to do so,” he said last month.

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Top News In Payments: Apple Shares Hit Record High; CA Denies Lending License For Sezzle

PYMNTS

In today’s top payments news, Apple’s share price hit a record high above $300 on Thursday, “buy now, pay later” company Sezzle was denied a lending license from California and a European Central Bank policymaker urged area banks to seek alternatives to Libra. CA Denies Lending License For BNPL Firm Sezzle.

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