On May 8, the Maryland governor signed HB 686 to eliminate a requirement that collection agencies and certain non-depository financial institutions must maintain separate licenses for branch locations. The Act now allows such entities to conduct business at multiple licensed locations under a single license.
Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Transunion v. Ramirez, courts and litigants continue to grapple with standing issues in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) cases brought by plaintiffs alleging intangible harms to reputation and privacy interests. Prominent among these post-Ramirez FDCPA cases was Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Management Services. (11th Cir. 2022),
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that the former president of a purported mortgage “investment” company, Robert Sedlar, has been convicted of 100 felony counts for operating a mortgage fraud scheme throughout California. The scheme resulted in a combined loss of over $7 million.
On April 21, 2023, the Governor of Washington State signed Second Substitute Bill 5518 into law, establishing a cybersecurity advisory committee and related subcommittees to provide recommendations for identifying and responding to cybersecurity breaches.
Smaller lenders emerged from the recent banking crisis relatively unscathed, according to new research. A study released Thursday (May 11) by the New York Fed found that withdrawals from banks in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) failure in March were primarily centered around 30 “super-regional” banks.
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