The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is still impacting the mortgage industry, despite a lack of examinations or investigations and the threat of a mass firing. The regulator under Acting Director Russell Vought has continued to provide regulatory guidance to financial ...

On March 26, 2016 the FTC announced today that it is seeking public comment on an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) concerning the agency’s Rule Concerning the Use of Prenotification Negative Option Plans, commonly known as the Negative Option ...

Saks Global is expected to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings before the end of the year with new ownership, a five-year business plan, and a strategy designed to better differentiate the merchandising and marketing of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus ...

Ryanair had Austrian bailiffs board one of its Boeing 737s in Linz this week over an unpaid compensation judgment of about €890–€893 owed to a passenger whose 2024 flight was delayed 13 hours. What actually happened The passenger’s July 2024 ...

SACRAMENTO – As National Consumer Protection Week (March 1-7) draws to a close, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) is reminding consumers of long-lasting, simple, effective steps they can take to protect themselves and their families from scams and ...

The Maine Senate has passed LD 1822, the Maine Online Data Privacy Act, moving a comprehensive consumer data privacy framework one step closer to enactment; the bill now returns to the House to consider Senate amendments. What the bill does ...

On March 6, 2026, the Administration released “President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America” alongside an Executive Order (entitled “Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens”) and accompanying Fact Sheet.  The framework set forth in the Strategy document is ...

The publicly-traded parent company of LendCare, a Pickering-based high-cost lender, will be incurring a charge of $178 million related to its subsidiary’s bad loans and correcting previous reporting of delinquencies. In a financial update posted Tuesday, Goeasy also announced an ...

By Jonathan Sharp There has been a lot of noise about how AI is changing culture in financial institutions, but culture is about people, derived from and driven by a company’s values, such as integrity, transparency, and innovation. People are at ...