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Prosecutors Target Loosely-Regulated Business Lending Sector

PYMNTS

Federal and state authorities are targeting companies that allegedly lend money to small businesses at extreme rates and seek to collect payments with heavy-handed tactics, NBC News reported Tuesday (Aug. Critics argue that the total cash outflow required of businesses that get money from merchant cash advance companies can be disastrous.

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Unintended Consequences of Aggressive Regulation

Jeff For Banks

"In case you're looking for some light reading this weekend, FRB-Philadelphia working paper 21-08, Does CFPB Oversight Crimp Credit?" ~ Robert Morro (@bmorro44) So went a tweet from one of my Twitter connections. So I listened to him, and dialed up the FRB-Philadelphia WP 21-08. This is good. There were two unintended consequences.

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Could COVID-19 Cause A Banking And Commercial Real Estate Crisis?

PYMNTS

Adding to the problem, the Post reported, is the fact that the looming threat of bankruptcies and defaults has already caused banks to tighten lending. Bank regulators and overseers have been tracking the problem since the outbreak’s onset. What he and other concerned parties are looking at are the growing reserves that U.S.

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Your Financial Institution Issued a PPP Loan – Now What?

Abrigo

As a result, some lenders are using solutions that include a standard SBA Form 147 that lenders can autopopulate and save for easy use for the PPP, while others are consulting with lawyers like Joann Needleman, a member of Philadelphia law firm Clark Hill PLC , to draw up their own promissory notes. Lending & Credit Risk.

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CFPB representatives to be featured at 21st Annual PLI Consumer Financial Services Institute

CFPB Monitor

The 21 st Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute, sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, will take place on April 4-5, 2016 in New York City (and by live webcast and groupcast in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Mechanicsburg, PA) and on May 12-13, 2016 in Chicago. Thompson, Managing Counsel, Office of Regulations.

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CFPB representatives confirmed for 21st Annual PLI Consumer Financial Services Institute Chicago session

CFPB Monitor

The New York City session was held on April 4-5, 2016 (with live webcasts and groupcasts in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Mechanicsburg, PA).). The CFPB panelists in Chicago will be: Jeffrey Langer, Assistant Director for Installment Lending and Collections Markets. Twohig, Assistant Director for Supervision Policy.

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CFPB representatives to be featured at 22nd Annual PLI Consumer Financial Services Institute

CFPB Monitor

The 22nd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, will take place on March 27-28, 2017 in New York City (and by live webcast and groupcast in Atlanta; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsburg PA) and on May 4-5, 2017 in Chicago. Thompson, Managing Counsel, Office of Regulations or Kelly T.