In this episode of the Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, host Alan Kaplinsky is joined by colleagues Pilar French and Burt Rublin to unpack a rapidly evolving issue at the intersection of bank–FinTech partnerships and interstate lending: the renewed exercise of state opt-out authority under Section 525 of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 (DIDMCA).… Continue Reading
House Appropriations subcommittee to hold March 6 hearing on student loan servicing
By Barbara S. Mishkin on
The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on March 6, 2019 entitled “Protecting Student Borrowers: Loan Servicing Oversight.”
The witnesses for the hearing are:
- Colleen Campbell, Director, Postsecondary Education, Center for American Progress
- Preston Cooper, Research Analyst in Higher Education Policy, American Enterprise Institute
- Joanna Darcus, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation Racial Justice Fellow, National Consumer Law Center
- Bryon Gordon, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Department of Education Office of Inspector General
- Shennan Kavanagh, Deputy Chief of the Consumer Protection Division, Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy