CFPB, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Attorneys General
The OCC has filed its opening brief in its appeal to the Second Circuit from the district court’s final judgment in the lawsuit filed by the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) seeking to block the OCC’s issuance of special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to non-depository fintech companies.
In May 2019, the district…
In response to New York Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 202.9 issued on March 21, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has adopted new regulations to provide emergency relief to individuals who can demonstrate financial hardship as a result of COVID-19. The new regulations were promulgated as Part 119 to Title 3 of…
On March 19, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued guidance urging all state-regulated financial institutions during the outbreak of the coronavirus to reduce its adverse impact by working with consumers and small businesses that can demonstrate financial hardship caused by COVID-19. Specifically, NYDFS authorized financial institutions to take “reasonable and prudent…
The New York Department of Financial Services has announced that Leandra English, who formerly served as CFPB Deputy Director, has joined the NYDFS executive team as Special Policy Advisor. As our blog readers may recall, although Ms. English was appointed CFPB Acting Director by former CFPB Director Cordray upon his departure from the Bureau, President…
The New York Department of Financial Services has announced the creation of a new Consumer Protection Task Force within the NYDFS.
According to the NYDFS press release, the Task Force “will further DFS’s mission to protect consumers as the federal government rolls back important consumer protections’” and one of its first priorities “will be…
The governors of California and New York have both proposed to expand the authority of their respective state’s consumer financial services regulator. Both governors have framed their proposals as a response to what they describe as the CFPB’s “rollback” of its efforts to protect consumers.
California. Governor Newsom’s proposals are part of his 2020-2021…
The New York Department of Financial Services has sent a letter to the institutions that it regulates requiring each such institution, by February 7, 2020, to provide to DFS a description of its “plan to address its LIBOR cessation and transition risk.” (LIBOR is the acronym for the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate.)
The letter references…
The OCC has appealed to the Second Circuit from the district court’s final judgment entered in October 2019 in the lawsuit filed by the New York Department of Financial Services seeking to block the OCC’s issuance of special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to fintech companies. In the final judgment, the district court denied the…
Last week, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a proposed new regulation that provides greater flexibility for entities licensed, chartered, authorized, registered, or supervised by the NYDFS to disclose confidential supervisory information (“CSI”) to legal counsel and independent auditors. The proposal would make NY Banking Law more consistent with federal law, which…
Final regulations adopted by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) to implement the state’s new student loan servicing law became effective on October 16, 2019 upon the publication by the NYDFS of a Notice of Adoption in the State Register. The new law, known as Article 14-A, was enacted on April 1,…
