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March

14
2024
Trends

Data Breaches up 72% From Record High: Cyber Incident Readiness Must be Top of Mind

“Protect your data! Breaches are on the rise!” These warnings seem to be everywhere – and rightfully so. Threat actors are sophisticated and new breach trends are constantly materializing

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March

14
2024
Industry News

Trade groups file lawsuit in Texas federal court challenging CFPB final credit card late fee rule and ask for preliminary injunction

Just two days after the CFPB issued its final credit card late fee rule (Rule) last week, a lawsuit was filed in a Texas federal district court seeking to invalidate the Rule. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Longview Chamber of Commerce, American Bankers Association, Consumer Bankers Association, and Texas Association of Business.

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March

14
2024
Industry News

CFPB and FTC Amicus Brief Signals Stance on “Pay-to-Pay” Fees under FDCPA

On February 27, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an amicus brief in the 11th Circuit case Glover and Booze v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC arguing that certain convenience fees charged by mortgage servicer debt collectors are prohibited by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).

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March

14
2024
Industry News

Four More Defendants Arraigned in Connection with Nationwide Conspiracy Targeting Credit Unions

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Victor Barriera, age 63, of the Bronx, New York, Jerjuan Joyner, age 49, of Brooklyn, New York, Akeem Balogun, age 53, of Brooklyn, and Lesley Lucchese, age 53, of Brooklyn, have been arrested on an indictment charging a bank fraud conspiracy that targeted credit unions all over the country starting in December 2021. All eight defendants have now been arraigned on the indictment.

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March

14
2024
Industry News

Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book

The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI[1] highlighted three panels that reflect different layers of the AI tech stack – hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. Today, we publish the first in a three-part series of “Quote Books” summarizing each of the three panels. This first one is focused on hardware and infrastructure, including semiconductor chips and cloud computing.

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