CFPB Monitor

APRIL 14, 2021

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has issued modifications to its proposed regulations to implement SB 1235, the bill signed into law on September 30, 2018 that requires consumer-like disclosures to be made for certain commercial financing products, including small business loans and merchant cash advances.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. BSBY was not well received by US regulators from its inception, but the market eventually embraced SOFR over BSBY. No ISDA documents.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Companies providing such financing are not required to comply with the new disclosure requirements until the DBO’s final regulations become effective. The DBO’s invitation provides an important opportunity for providers of commercial financing products to engage with and educate the DBO as it develops proposed regulations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

The charter is optional for FinTechs and is aimed at providing a stamp of approval by the OCC for having good compliance practices. Other concerns are that the OCC doesn’t understand FinTech and therefore shouldn’t regulate it. In essence with the charter, the government could weed out the good FinTechs from the bad ones.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Although the CFPB has claimed, in many cases, that it allows many smaller banks and credit unions to be exempt from many of the regulations, the congressional members have expressed fear that the bureau may not be doing enough to ensure those smaller financial institution aren’t unnecessarily regulated.

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American Banker

MAY 9, 2016

State officials in California have asked top online lending firms a series of probing questions regarding their compliance with laws and regulations dealing with referral fees, bank partnerships, fair lending and other sensitive issues.

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Regulation Online California Lending 28

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

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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