In Madden, the Second Circuit ruled that a nonbank that purchases loans from a national bank could not charge the same rate of interest on the loan that Section 85 of the National Bank Act allows the national bank to charge. Yesterday, at the Online Lending Policy Summit in Washington, D.C.… Continue Reading
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DOJ confirms termination of Operation Chokepoint; OCC welcomes DOJ statement
By Barbara S. Mishkin on
In a letter dated August 16, 2017 to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Stephen Boyd stated that “[a]ll of the [DOJ’s] bank investigations conducted as part of Operation Chokepoint are now over, the initiative is no longer in effect, and it will not be undertaken again.” … Continue Reading