The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s adopting release for its small business data collection and reporting rule goes beyond that rule by including a discussion deeming merchant cash advances to be “credit” more generally for purposes of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
While the European Union (EU) is embracing crypto, credit union (CU) executives largely aren’t. This, as data in the April 2023 PYMNTS report, “Credit Union Innovation: Bridging the Cryptocurrency Divide,” a collaboration with PSCU, finds that more than half of credit union leaders (56%) say they are less than gung-ho about providing cryptocurrency products for their members.
Silicon Valley Bank’s dramatic failure in early March was the product of mismanagement and supervisory missteps, compounded by a dose of social media frenzy, the Federal Reserve concluded in a highly anticipated report released Friday.
LIBOR is the name for an index of interest rates used in loans across the country and across the globe. LIBOR expires on June 30, 2023, as part of a transition that has been planned for several years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interim final rule amending the agency’s 2021 LIBOR transition rule. The interim final rule contains updates to reflect the subsequent enactment of the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act and issuance of an implementing regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board System.