California DBO

Subscribe to California DBO

We previously wrote about California Governor Newsom’s 2020-2021 Budget and an accompanying trailer bill that would rename the Department of Business Oversight (“DBO”) and significantly increase its ability to oversee financial services providers in the state.  The proposed law hit a roadblock in May when it was handed to the Legislature for further deliberation and review outside of the typical budgeting process. … Continue Reading

California Governor Newsom submitted his updated 2020-2021 budget proposal to the state legislature on May 14, 2020.  The proposed budget amendments include substantial cuts to compensate for the anticipated impact to state revenue due to job losses and business closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The funding allocated to the revamping of the Department of Business Oversight (DBO) was not impacted, however. … Continue Reading

The California Department of Business Oversight has sent an email to servicers notifying them of the publication of its final student loan servicer regulations, which became effective March 28, 2019. The DBO published its initial rules on September 8, 2017 and modified the proposed rules three times. Servicers have been operating without final rules since the Student Loan Servicing Act became effective on July 1, 2018.… Continue Reading

Governor Brown yesterday signed into law SB 1235, a bill requiring consumer-like disclosures to be made on certain commercial finance products, including small business loans and merchant cash advances, among other things.  Contrary to reports in certain press outlets, the law will not take effect by a date certain.  Rather, the California Department of Business Oversight (“DBO”) is now required to adopt regulations addressing details such as calculation methods and the time, manner, and format of the new disclosures. … Continue Reading

The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has published a second round of modifications to its proposed regulations under the State’s Student Loan Servicing Act.  As previously covered, the DBO published its first round of revised rules last month.

The latest revisions to the regulations clarify servicer responsibilities related to application of payments, borrower communications and handling of qualified written requests (QWRs), and recordkeeping requirements, among other miscellaneous changes.… Continue Reading

The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has published modifications to its proposed regulations under the State’s Student Loan Servicing Act.  As previously covered, the DBO published notice of its initial proposed rules on September 8, 2017.  A blackline of the changes is available here.

The initial regulations mandated extensive customer service obligations. … Continue Reading

California and the District of Columbia have recently released regulations under their respective student loan servicing laws.  Each is taking comments on its regulations, but whereas California has merely issued proposed regulations, the District of Columbia has issued emergency regulations that are currently in effect. A brief summary of the regulations and their effective dates appears below, with links to more detailed discussions that also note the extraordinarily small number of complaints to the CFPB from residents of these jurisdictions as well as the bizarre economic impact of these licensing regimes, which will effectively result in the Department of Education paying the administrative expenses incurred by states asserting the authority to supervise federal student loan servicers.… Continue Reading

Tom Dresslar, the Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Planning at the California Department of Business Oversight, California’s state bank regulator, has retired.  Mr. Dresslar joined the DBO in late 2014 after a long career in California state government and, before that, as the Sacramento Bureau Chief for the Daily Journal, Los Angeles’s daily legal newspaper. … Continue Reading