Fintech Finance

JULY 19, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed an interpretive rule explaining that many paycheck advance products, sometimes marketed as “earned wage” products, are consumer loans subject to the Truth in Lending Act. The CFPB also published a report examining employer-sponsored paycheck advance loans.

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Innovative Payments Association

JANUARY 10, 2024

Comments were due by December 29, 2023. As Ron Shevlin, the Chief Research Officer at Cornerstone Advisors, noted in a Forbes Column that six out 10 consumers who opened a checking account in 2022 and 2023 say they have more than one checking account. But the CFPB sees it differently.

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Global Fintech & Digital Assets

MARCH 8, 2024

The rule targets a statutory loophole that the CFPB asserts large credit card issuers exploited to exact excessive late fees from consumers. The Rule was initially proposed in February 2023 and was intended to go into effect in October 2023 (for more information on the proposal, see this Latham blog post ).

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Tearsheet

MARCH 27, 2024

View the case study While the historical arrangement of paying employees bi-weekly remains the norm, around 20% of employers have veered toward a more flexible approach by introducing Earned Wage Access [EWA] as of 2023 in anticipation of increased employee satisfaction and better retention rates. Take, for example, DailyPay.

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