Key Takeaways: Data Brokers Dual Exposure — How data brokers function as service providers and when they cross into financial-institution status Telemarketing and Call Centers — Service-provider vs. financial-institution classifications for telemarketers Telecommunications Companies — Infrastructure providers vs. fintech-enabled telecoms ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has proposed a rule that would establish a prudential framework for FDIC-supervised permitted stablecoin issuers. This framework would include requirements for reserve assets, redemption, capital and risk management standards, the regulator said in a Tuesday (April 7) press release ...

More than 700 million women globally still lack a financial account, despite significant gains in financial inclusion over the past decade. What this statistic refers to The figure comes from the World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 data, which tracks access ...

Named Employee of the Year at a major Kazakhstan bank, she built collection automation systems years before the country’s 2025 banking reform made them mandatory.  Recent regulatory changes in Kazakhstan’s banking sector have introduced new requirements for data integration and monitoring processes ...

On April 8, the Director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection announced that the “FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) is committed to providing legal clarity to legitimate businesses that wish to deal honestly with their customers and comply ...

The phrase refers to a growing pattern in which some U.S. student loan borrowers relocate overseas and then stop making payments, effectively allowing their loans to go delinquent or into default while they live abroad. What is happening A subset ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DFI’s Statement of Charges seeks to order Newrez to stop alleged violations of the law, fix consumer issues, and pay a fine of $4,175,000 - one of DFI's most significant ...

A proposal to create a comprehensive data privacy law in Maine was unable to recover after sizable business pushback led several Democrats to join Republicans in opposition, marking the second Legislature that has failed to get such a plan over ...

Knowing how multiple garnishments work could be the difference between recovery and a major cash-flow issue. Borrowers are carrying more debt than ever right now, and it's having a big impact on their overall financial health. Total household debt has ...