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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. BSBY was not well received by US regulators from its inception, but the market eventually embraced SOFR over BSBY.

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CA appellate court rules bail bond premium financing agreements are consumer credit contracts subject to cosigner notice requirement

CFPB Monitor

Among BBBB’s arguments rejected by the appellate court was its argument that consumer protection laws did not apply to bail bond transactions because the bail bond industry is governed by a separate statutory scheme—the Bail Bond Regulatory Act and its implementing regulations. In that lawsuit, the Bureau alleges that Libre by Nexus, Inc.

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California legislature passes bills requiring licensure of debt collectors

CFPB Monitor

The bill authorizes the Department of Business Oversight (“DBO”), soon to be known as the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, to begin adopting regulations pertaining to the new licensing requirement on January 1, 2021. The licensing requirement would be enforced beginning on January 1, 2022.

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Payments and passports

Tomorrow's Transactions

Now what this passporting might mean is anyone’s guess, since this is just a newspaper story based on gossip, but I think it might be a little more complex to arrange than it seems at first because of the nature of banking regulation in the United States. This seems anachronistic. I don’t see any immediate problem that this solves.

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Sloan Alone: Why The Wells Fargo CEO (Perhaps) Had To Go

PYMNTS

Consider the events of earlier this month when Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), also head of the House Committee on Financial Services, said that Sloan should be “shown the door,” even as Sloan appeared before that same committee and said the bank had made operational improvements in the face of scandals stretching back years.

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On The Hill, Banking’s Biggest Get Grilled

PYMNTS

The Trump administration has promised — and, in some cases, has been executing on promises — to roll back at least some of the regulations contained in the Dodd-Frank tenets that took shape a decade ago. He said that “leveraged lending” and “student lending [are] growing rapidly, and deteriorating rapidly.”

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On The Hill, Banking’s Biggest Get Grilled

PYMNTS

The Trump administration has promised — and, in some cases, has been executing on promises — to roll back at least some of the regulations contained in the Dodd-Frank tenets that took shape a decade ago. He said that “leveraged lending” and “student lending [are] growing rapidly, and deteriorating rapidly.”

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