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).

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JULY 29, 2019

California BanCorp , the holding company for California Bank of Commerce (CBC), has announced the launch of a Treasury Management Consultancy to enable firms to manage their liquidity, utilize excess cash for better investments and reduce financial risks. “We

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a notice of “ Intent to Make Preemption Determination under the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z) ,” the CFPB announced that it is seeking comments on its preliminary determinations that the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) does not.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

In a press release , Fundation said it is collaborating with Banc of California to develop a streamlined, digital small business lending and line of credit solution that the bank can offer to its small business clients. SMBs can use the tool to apply for financing through an online application on the Banc of California website.

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American Banker

JANUARY 8, 2024

The legislation is the latest step in California's effort to crack down on high-cost small-business loans.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Sezzle — a “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) company based in Minnesota, but listed in Australia — was denied a crucial lending license from California. Afterpay released a statement confirming approval of its own California lending license six weeks ago, upping its shares by 4.6 The company offers U.S. ”

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MARCH 11, 2020

A California statue caps interest to an annual rate of 37 percent a year but out-of-state banks have figured out how to sidestep the law and use rates allowable where they are headquartered. It is currently charging 160 percent on a typical California loan, the WSJ said. Utah has no caps on interest rates. “A

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

30) said a lack of regulation in the online SMB lending arena is raising concerns over sky-high fees and interest rates, sparking a bigger conversation about expanding borrower protections beyond consumers. Top players in the industry, including PayPal and Amazon , have promoted borrower trust in the online lending business model for SMBs.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As part of California’s recent triad of consumer financial services legislation, including AB-1864 , which creates the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and the California Financial Protection Law, and AB-376 , which includes a new Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The district judge upheld the state's regulations mandating that nonbanks disclose the annual percentage rate, finance charges and fees on financings of $500,000 or less.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 14, 2022

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has filed its opposition to Opportunity Financial, LLC’s (OppFi) Demurrer to the DFPI’s cross-complaint. The DFPI also alleged additional CFL violations by OppFi, including the CFL’s “anti-evasion” provisions.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 15, 2022

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has issued final 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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Payments Source

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A California regulator on Monday denied a lending license to the point-of-sale financier Sezzle in a detailed written decision that could have broader consequences for upstart consumer lenders.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 17, 2020

The fintech Sezzle has finally received its point-of-sale lending license in California after agreeing to refund consumers in the state and pay a penalty for previously making illegal loans there, the California Department of Business Oversight said Thursday.

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JUNE 4, 2020

The Federal Reserve will launch the Main Street Lending Program, which is geared toward mid-sized businesses, this week. Companies also have four years to pay the debts, but Bank of Southern California CEO Nathan Rogge said, per the report, that the window doesn’t provide sufficient time for a number of his customers.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Headquartered in Orange County, California and founded in 2003, CashCall is a big firm that consumers likely know best from its early commercials featuring the late Gary Coleman. During its 15 years in business, the firm grew up to be the largest lender of its kind in the state of California. The California Court Loss.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A California state court has overruled the demurrer filed by Opportunity Financial, LLC (OppFi) to the cross-complaint filed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in which OppFi asked the court to reject the DFPI’s “true lender” challenge.

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MAY 8, 2019

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is eyeing tighter scrutiny of small business lending practices as Commissioner Rohit Chopra calls on the regulator to combat predatory SMB loan contracts, reports in Bloomberg said on Wednesday (May 8). Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C., Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C.,

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JULY 20, 2018

California lawmakers are considering legislation that would extend disclosure requirements currently required by consumer lenders to lenders of small business loan products, according to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. According to the article’s authors, Thomas R. McMorrow and Charles E. Washburn, Jr.,

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

The state of California’s insurance regulator is aiming to suspend or revoke the insurance licenses from Wells Fargo due to illicit sales practices with an online referral program. The potential move by the California insurance regulator is just the latest in a string of Wells Fargo’s problems after its fake account scandal last year.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) is calling on lawmakers to address predatory lending to small businesses (SMBs), The Washington Post reported on Thursday (June 27). “By ending confessions of judgment in commercial lending, we can stop some of the abuses that are crippling honest small business owners,” she said.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 15, 2019

There was movement last week on two California bills that we have been tracking closely and which could substantially alter the lending and brokering landscape under the California Financing Law (“CFL”).

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Yesterday, the California DFPI issued an invitation for stakeholders to provide input on rulemaking to implement the recently-effective California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL). Comments are due by March 8, 2021. As the invitation notes, pursuant to Cal.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 19, 2022

In 2019, California enacted AB 539 which, effective January 1, 2020, limited the interest rate that can be charged on loans less than $10,000 but more than $2,500 by lenders licensed under the California Financing Law (CFL) to 36% plus the federal funds rate.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In 2019, California enacted AB-539, the Fair Access to Credit Act (FACA), which, effective January 1, 2020, limits the interest rate that can be charged on loans of $2,500 to $10,000 by lenders licensed under the California Financing Law (CFL) to 36% plus the federal funds rate.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Creating and protecting ownership and economic opportunity for all is at the heart of what we do at Self-Help FCU,” said Sarah Brennan, SVP of Southern California for Self-Help Federal Credit Union. “By Network teamed up.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

lending division in recent months, with a focus on its agriculture and energy teams, Reuters reported. The company’s agricultural lending division, which gives loans to farmers, was cut by at least 25 percent, while the bank also laid off about 7 percent of the staff from its energy lending group over the summer. billion, or 15.3

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Ballard Spahr attorneys Chris Willis, Scott Pearson, and Taylor Steinbacher discuss recent noteworthy developments in California law. Chris and Taylor, an associate in the Consumer Financial Services group, discuss the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, a statute giving substantial new privacy rights to California consumers.

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MARCH 18, 2019

He pointed to the recent enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as an example. During the housing boom in the early 2000s, the OCC preempted state predatory lending laws and, as a result, contributed to widespread foreclosures that led to the mortgage meltdown and U.S. Here’s a mortgage analogy. financial crisis.”.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

30) against Citizens Bank over alleged violations of the Truth In Lending Act (TILA). Meanwhile, states are pursuing their own agendas, with both New York and California pursuing new regulations against debt collectors. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit on Thursday (Jan. It filed the complaint in the U.S.

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American Banker

JULY 9, 2020

Two state assembly members introduced legislation that would let the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank accept deposits from public entities and provide financing to small businesses and local governments.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The agreement includes funds for small-business lending and mortgages for low- and moderate-income borrowers in California and Massachusetts. It puts an end to questions about the fate of an $11.2 billion plan that Silicon Valley Bank inked before it failed in March.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

The payday lending and debt collection industry is controversial, to say the least, and it is getting a day in court. The financial publication reported that the trial centers on Scott Tucker, who is alleged to have run a $2 billion payday lending operation that advanced funds to more than 4.5 million people. million people.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Sierra Bancorp in Porterville has formed dedicated lending teams in Sacramento and Greater Los Angeles in its bid to accelerate loan growth following a sluggish 2019.

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A bill introduced last week in the California State Assembly could change the consumer lending landscape in California considerably. California’s unconscionability doctrine is incorporated into the CFL. AB 539 expressly provides that a CFL-regulated loan cannot be found unconscionable based on the interest rate alone.

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MAY 2, 2017

In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. Drilling down a bit into the Puerto Rico market in particular, Arora noted some differences between small business lending versus, say, the United States.

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