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6 Nov 2019, 11:27 am
Click here for a complete description of PLI’s 24th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute and to reserve your place today. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 5:54 am
The growth of investment robo-advisors, web-based insurance exchanges, on-line credit comparison sites, and automated personal financial management services creates significant opportunities and risks for consumers that regulators across the financial services spectrum have yet even to assess, let alone address. [read post]
24 May 2012, 9:51 am
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today released a draft rule outlining how it plans to supervise debt collectors, consumer reporting agencies, money services companies and other small nonbanks that engage in “activities that pose risks to consumers. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 8:27 pm
This would apply generally to the consumer financial products and services that t [read post]
6 May 2019, 6:55 am
The New York Department of Financial Services has announced the creation of a new “powerhouse” Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement Division. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 10:12 am
Consumer Financial Project Bureau (CFPB) announced in early November, 2017 that it has filed a lawsuit against Freedom Debt Relief, which is the largest debt settlement services provider in America. [read post]
28 Jul 2022, 3:07 am
On 27 July 2022, the Financial Ombudsman service (FOS) announced that it has published two new webpages on the subject of complaints that involve gambling-related harm. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 2:53 pm
Kaplinsky 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. [read post]
12 Nov 2018, 4:16 am
do vulnerable consumers pay more for financial services products? [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 7:46 pm
News release: “The use of mobile phones to access bank accounts, credit cards, or other financial accounts continued to increase among adults in the United States last year, according to a Federal Reserve Board report, Consumers and Mobile Financial Services 2015. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 11:20 am
Enforcement & Investigations was added by Chambers USA last year as a new category for Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 8:28 am
On March 19th, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) issued Circular Letter No. 7 (2020) (the “Letter”) urging all regulated entities to do their part to alleviate the adverse impact caused by COVID-19 on consumers and small businesses. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 9:43 am
Its mission is to protect consumers in the financial services sector of our economy by preventing unfair, deceptive and abusive practices by financial institutions.[1] The idea behind the CFPB is explained in an article titled “Making Credit Safer” by Elizabeth Warren and Oren Bar-Gill – the leading advocates for a new agency focused on consumer credit.[2] That article suggests that, “[c]onsumer credit products . . .… [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 1:50 pm
As part of its report on the National Consumer Credit Reform Package (also see here), the Senate Economics Committee has reported on the Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Services Modernisation) Bill 2009 which regulates margin lending, promissory notes and trustee corporations. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 6:39 pm
Here's the abstract: The Obama administration has proposed restructuring financial services regulation by transferring all consumer protection functions from existing agencies to a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 3:47 pm
Financial Ombudsman Service, Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading Consumer complaint (emerging risks and mass claims): Feedback... [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 11:52 am
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (chaired by Bernie Ripoll MP) has released its report into the issues associated with recent financial product and services provider collapses, such as Storm Financial, Opes Prime and other similar collapses, with particular reference to: the role of financial advisers; the general regulatory environment for these products and services; the role played by… [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 11:28 am
The governors of California and New York have both proposed to expand the authority of their respective state’s consumer financial services regulator. [read post]
24 Sep 2016, 7:23 am
On Sept. 13, 2016, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued a proposed regulation that would impose new, rigorous cybersecurity requirements on banks, consumer lenders, money transmitters, insurance companies and certain other financial service providers (each, a “Covered Entity”) regulated by the NYDFS (the “Proposed Regulation”). [read post]
11 May 2023, 8:35 am
The consumer financial services industry has become the target of increasing regulatory scrutiny under antitrust laws as well as class action antitrust litigation that challenges industry practices on the grounds that they undermine competition. [read post]
