In this crossover episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Regulatory Oversight, Chris Willis is joined by Joseph DeFazio, Bill Foley, and Michael Yaghi to discuss the implications of New York's FAIR Act, a significant amendment to the state's UDAAP statute. The FAIR Act aims to broaden consumer protection by lowering the threshold for legal action against unfair and abusive business practices.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued two memoranda that clarify HUD’s role in enforcing the Fair Housing Act (FHA), explain how future enforcement efforts will proceed, and officially rescind several guidance documents related to disparate impact and redlining, among other topics.
Allowing President Trump to fire Lisa D. Cook from the Fed would “signal to the financial markets that the Federal Reserve no longer enjoys its traditional independence, risking chaos and disruption,” Cook told the Supreme Court, in her opposition for a stay in her case.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) today announced it has ceased using reputation risk and equivalent concepts in the examination and supervisory process. These updates follow White House Executive Order 14331, This is an external link to a website belonging to another federal agency, private organization, or commercial entity.Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans(Opens new window), which requires federal banking regulators to remove the use of reputational risk or equivalent concepts that could result in politicized or unlawful debanking.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today published a list of orders of administrative enforcement actions taken against banks and individuals in August 2025. There are no administrative hearings scheduled for October 2025.
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