On March 5, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule intended to limit late payment fees on credit cards issued by the largest credit card issuers. The

Continue Reading CFPB Unveils Final Rule Banning ‘Excessive’ Credit Card Late Fees

On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles C. Burke of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama found the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA or Act) unconstitutional on the

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has long recognized non-financed (i.e., “all-cash”) transfers of residential real estate as susceptible of money laundering because these methods

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On Jan. 25, 2024, the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Division of Financial Institutions (DFI) and the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (collectively, the “Agencies”) jointly issued a press

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U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Reps. Wiley Nickel (D-NC) and Mike Flood (R-NE) are working to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff accounting bulletin, SAB 121

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On Dec. 22, 2023, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued an opinion clarifying that certain Earned Wage Access products are not loans under either the Montana Consumer Loan Act or the Montana Deferred Deposit Loan Act.
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