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State RegulatorsĀ Investigate Payday Advances

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The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has announced it will lead a multi-state investigation into alleged violations of state regulations of the short term lending industry, specifically in the area of payroll advances. It also illegal to attempt to collect one.

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CFPB Sues Citizens Bank For Violating Truth In Lending Act

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30) against Citizens Bank over alleged violations of the Truth In Lending Act (TILA). For several years, the bank also violated TILA and Regulation Z by not providing credit card counseling referrals to customers who called and asked for that service on Citizens’ toll-free number. It filed the complaint in the U.S.

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FinTechs Press States To Streamline Regulations

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The panel, which traces its genesis back two years, is comprised of two groups, focused separately on lending and payments, and is in turn part of CSBS Vision 2020. ā€œAs We have formed a working group of state regulators to develop the model. Our FinTech industry advisory panel did include a few community banks.

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FinTech Credit: Not So Clear And Present Danger?

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As the payments landscape evolves and becomes ever more digital in scope, and as FinTech firms make inroads into traditional financial services, regulators are looking at FinTech credit ā€” and how it might be defined and shaped. There seem to be no easy answers on just how to regulate the space. trillion.

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California DFPI issues final regulations implementing 2018 law requiring consumer-like disclosures for commercial financing

CFPB Monitor

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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Trade groups react to FTCā€™s proposed Motor Vehicle Dealers Trade Regulation Rule as public comment period closes

CFPB Monitor

The public comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking (ā€œNPRMā€) regarding the Motor Vehicle Dealers Trade Regulation Rule (the ā€œRuleā€) closed on September 15, 2022 after the FTC declined in August to extend it. In addition, AFSA and CBA provided practical suggestions and changes to the proposed Rule.

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Regulators share proposed changes to HVCRE guidance

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This summary outlines a new rule that would, among other things, clarify and simplify the definition of HVCRE loans. One intention of the proposed rule would be to replace the current definition of HVCRE with a more straightforward and simpler definition known as HVADC (high volatility acquisition, development, or construction).