Welcome to the second edition of Licensing Link, a periodic publication that will keep you informed on hot topics and new developments in state licensing laws, and provide practice tips and primers on important issues related to state licensing across the spectrum of asset classes and financial services activities. We look forward to you joining us for future editions!
Legal Update: The CFPB Sticks to Its Guns, Finding State Commercial Finance Disclosure Laws Not Preempted in Final Determination
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized its December 2022 preliminary determination that commercial finance disclosure laws recently enacted in California, New York, Utah and Virginia are not preempted by the federal Truth in Lending Act. The CFPB’s final determination confirms for a wide range of small business financers and brokers that they
Licensing Link
Welcome to the first edition of Licensing Link, a new periodic publication that will keep you informed on hot topics and new developments in state licensing laws, and provide practice tips and primers on important issues related to state licensing across the spectrum of asset classes and financial services activities. We look forward to you joining us for future editions!
Legal Update: The Suspense Is Over – NYDFS Adopts Final Commercial Financing Disclosure Rules, Announces Effective Date, and Provides New Exemptions
Small business financers and brokers (“providers”) active in New York are officially on notice to finalize their preparations to comply with New York’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (“CFDL”) by August 1, 2023, the new effective date provided in final administrative regulations just issued on February 1 by the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”).
Legal Update: Iowa Targets Out-of-State Bank Partner for Usury, Shedding Light on State’s Interpretation of DIDMCA Opt-Out
State-chartered banks lending to Iowa residents will want to take note of an Assurance of Discontinuance entered into in December between the State of Iowa and an out-of-state bank to settle claims that the bank charged usurious rates of interest to Iowa consumers. The settlement also highlights the Iowa Attorney General’s interpretation of the state’s
Legal Update: New York Enacts Retroactive Foreclosure Legislation
While many around the world are setting their calendars forward for the year 2023, residential mortgage loan owners and servicers may need to also look backward in time now that New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the so-called “Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act” (S5473) into law on December 30, 2022. The new law, which takes effect
Legal Update: CFPB Preliminarily Determines State Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws Not Preempted by Truth in Lending Act
Small business lenders hoping for federal intervention will be disappointed to learn that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has reached a preliminary determination that New York’s new commercial financing disclosure law is not preempted by the federal Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”). The CFPB’s public notice indicates that it initially takes the same view
Legal Update: Utah Enacts Commercial Financing Disclosure Law with a Registration Obligation
Utah has followed California and New York by enacting its own Truth in Lending-like commercial financing disclosure law, but with an additional twist—Utah’s new law has a registration requirement. On March 24, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed SB 183 into law, with an effective date of January 1, 2023. We discuss how this new law
Legal Update: Marketplace Lender’s Suit Challenges “True Lender” Recharacterization by California DFPI
Marketplace lender Opportunity Financial, LLC (“OppFi”) has gone on the offensive against the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) to protect its bank partnership program against challenge on a “true lender” theory. On March 7, 2022, OppFi filed suit against the DFPI to ask the state court to declare that FinWise Bank, a
NYDFS Issues Pre-Proposed Rules to Implement New Commercial Financing Disclosure Law
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued “pre-proposed” rules under New York’s commercial financing disclosure law that was enacted at the end of 2020. The pre-proposed rules are 45 pages in length and were posted on the NYDFS website on September 21. Comments on the pre-proposed outreach rules are due by October 1. There will be a longer comment period once a proposed rule is published in the State Register. The NYDFS is aiming to finalize the rules before the law takes effect on January 1, 2022.
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