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1 week ago | 
jdsupra.com | Alan Kaplinsky |Joseph J. Schuster |Ronald K. Vaske
At the request of both sides of the lawsuit, a federal judge has voided the CFPB’s credit card late fee rule. “The parties agree that, in the Late Fee Rule, the Bureau violated the CARD Act by failing to allow card issuers to ‘charge penalty fees reasonable and proportional to violations,’” Judge Mark T. Pittman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas wrote.
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1 month ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
Using the Congressional Review Act, the Senate has voted to nullify a CFPB final rule that would subject large cash apps to the bureau’s supervision. The Senate voted 51-47 to adopt S.J. Res 28, a resolution that under the CRA, was not subject to a filibuster. The House has not yet considered a companion resolution. If the House adopts that resolution, it would go to President Trump for his signature. The CFPB issued the rule in December.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
Using the Congressional Review Act, the Senate has voted to nullify a CFPB final rule that would subject large cash apps to the bureau’s supervision. The Senate voted 51-47 to adopt S.J. Res 28, a resolution that under the CRA, was not subject to a filibuster. The House has not yet considered a companion resolution. If the House adopts that resolution, it would go to President Trump for his signature. The CFPB issued the rule in December.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
Chairman Kyle S. Hauptman announced that the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) will no longer publish overdraft and non-sufficient fund (NSF) fee income for individual credit unions with more than $1 billion in assets. Instead, under the new policy effective with the March 31, 2025 call reporting, the NCUA will collect the data during supervisory examinations.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is further postponing the compliance date requirements to display the FDIC official digital sign on an insured depository institution’s (IDI) digital channels, as well as on the screen of an IDI’s automated teller machine (ATM) and like devices. The new mandatory compliance date for these requirements is March 1, 2026.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | John Culhane Jr. |Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
Chief Judge Virginia Kendall of the Northern District of Illinois has extended her preliminary injunction prohibiting Illinois from enforcing the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (the “IFPA”) to cover out-of-state banks conducting business in the state. Judge Kendall already had ruled that Illinois could not enforce the IFPA on nationally chartered banks and federal savings associations but requested additional briefing with respect to federal credit unions and out-of-state banks.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
House Republicans appear ready to start the Congressional Review Act (CRA) process to attempt to repeal the Biden Administration’s controversial overdraft rule. Therule is scheduled to go into effect Oct. 1, but Acting CFPB Director Scott Bessent has ordered a halt to all work at the agency, and a suspension of the effective dates for all rules that have not yet taken effect, so it is unclear when the overdraft rule might take effect.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Kristen Larson |Ronald K. Vaske
The New York State Department of Financial Services has released a proposed rule that would regulate overdraft, non-sufficient funds (NSF), and return deposit item fees charged by banks, trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions and investment companies. Under the proposal, announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul, state-chartered banking institutions would be prohibited from charging: Overdraft and NSF fees on overdrafts of less than $20.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Richard Andreano Jr. |John Culhane Jr. |Ronald K. Vaske
In an effort to foster innovation in financial services, the CFPB is reinstituting its programs that allow companies to obtain regulatory safe harbors through no-action letters and sandboxes to test new products and services. The CFPB had such programs during the first Trump Administration, but the Biden Administration scrapped them, saying that they were ineffective and unfair.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Richard J. Andreano |Ronald K. Vaske |John Culhane
In an effort to foster innovation in financial services, the CFPB is reinstituting its programs that allow companies to obtain regulatory safe harbors through no-action letters and sandboxes to test new products and services. The CFPB had such programs during the first Trump Administration, but the Biden Administration scrapped them, saying that they were ineffective and unfair.
