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08.04.16

Overdraft Service Program Costs Bank $10M in CFPB Fine

Overdraft services practices were the basis for a $10 million fine from the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) in a recent action against a national bank operating primarily in the northeast.


07.21.16

Network Rules Occupy Second Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court

Issues surrounding network rules made headlines recently, with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting a $7.25 billion deal between Visa and MasterCard and approximately 12 million merchants claiming the networks worked together to fix credit and debit interchange fees, as well as the U.S. ...


07.08.16

A Different Approach to Regulatory Relief

Community banks indeed need regulatory relief. Regulators generally agree, but their hands are tied as a decadelong enforcement environment drags on. Meanwhile, financial technology (fintech) firms assert they should not be subject to banking-type regulatory supervision as long as they are not ...


07.07.16

Will Industry Feel Impact of Supreme Court's Madden Rejection?

In a disappointing move, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied the petition for certiorari by Midland Funding to hear the case Madden v. Midland Funding. But could the inaction by the Supreme Court be much ado about nothing?


06.27.16

SCOTUS Declines Hearing Madden: Are Industry Repercussions Limited?

In a disappointing move, the Supreme Court today denied the petition by Midland Funding to hear the case Madden v. Midland Funding.


06.23.16

CFPB Releases Proposed Regulation of Payday Loans

In a long anticipated move, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a rule to regulate so-called "debt traps" by requiring lenders to take additional steps to ensure consumers have the ability to repay certain types of small loans and placing limits on reborrowing or ...


05.13.16

Take Two: Incentive-Based Payment Arrangements Rule Reappears

For a second time, federal banking regulators are seeking comment on a jointly proposed rule that would impose restrictions on incentive-based pay arrangements.


04.28.16

What Banks Need to Do to Address Technological Change

In the past few years the fintech industry has grown exponentially.


04.14.16

Prepaids in Focus: Federal Regulators Clarify CIP Rules

The federal banking agencies and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have issued guidance to banks to clarify how the Bank Secrecy Act's customer identification program (CIP) requirements apply to several types of prepaid access.


03.31.16

Monthly Complaint Snapshot, Supervisory Highlights, and Complaints About Online Marketplace Lenders

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has had a busy few weeks, releasing the latest monthly snapshot of consumer complaints, publishing its Supervisory Highlights newsletter to reveal the Bureau has recovered $14.3 million for consumers, and announcing that it will begin to accept ...