Government News

California Finalizes Commercial Financing Disclosure Regulations

Source: site The California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s (DFPI) final regulations, which require providers of commercial financing, including nonbank lenders, to provide commercial borrowers with cost-of-credit disclosures similar to those…

Biden’s Federal Trade Commission Is Now At Full Strength – What That Means For Business Leaders

Source: site Breaking a partisan deadlock, there are now three FTC Commissioners appointed by Democrats, and two appointed by Republicans who are in charge of how the FTC spends its resources prosecuting the federal competition (or antitrust) laws. As one might…

Biden Admin Announces Cancelling Nearly $6 Billion In Loan Debt

Source: site In the first indication that President Joe Biden could be preparing to cancel student loan debt, the administration is prepared to wipe out nearly $6 billion owed by hundreds of thousands who attended a for-profit college chain, a possible…

CFPB Encourages States To Use Federal Authorities To Bring Enforcement Actions

Source: site The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued  an interpretive rule on May 19, reiterating the authority that states have to pursue companies and individuals that violate federal consumer financial protection laws, including the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (“CFPA”). When…

Governor Pritzker Signs Illinois Banking Development Districts Act

Source: site CHICAGO – Governor Pritzker signed HB 5194, the Illinois Banking Development Districts Act, into law on Friday. Sponsored by State Senator Doris Turner (D-Springfield) and State Representative La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago), this legislation creates a new incentive program for the…

United States Settles Suit Against VoIP Service Providers for Facilitating Millions of Illegal Telemarketing Calls about COVID-19

Source: site Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers, VoIP Terminator Inc. and BLMarketing Inc., and their owner, Muhammed Usman Khan, agreed to a court order resolving Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations that they facilitated tens of millions of illegal telemarketing…

80% of US shoppers use buy now, pay later to avoid credit card debt

Source: site Dive Brief: Following previous reports of increased digital payment adoption, the Experian Global Insights Report found that 62% of respondents said they use mobile wallets, and 63% use traditional forms of payment, the credit reporting agency announced on Thursday. More…

Biden picks Barr as Fed bank czar

Source-site QUICK FIX It’s Barr — As MM foreshadowed earlier this week, former Treasury official Michael Barr is the pick for Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision, a surprisingly fast turnaround after Sarah Bloom Raskin withdrew her nomination for the same position…

70% of Americans Admit to Bad Spending Habits

Source-site Is saving money a big goal of yours? You might really struggle to achieve it if you don’t manage to keep your spending in check. And if you’ve struggled in that regard, you’re in good company. In a new CouponFollow survey, 70%…

Lt. Gov Kounalakis Signs Eviction Moratorium Extension Bill Into Law

Source-site First passed in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, statewide eviction moratoriums have been extended numerous times in 2020, in 2021, and, due to the rise of different variants, through 2002 until March 31st of…