This article republished on insideARM on September 23, 2026.
If you needed a reminder that state attorneys general are treating unlicensed debt collection as a serious enforcement priority, Massachusetts just delivered one. On August 31, the Suffolk Superior Court entered
On September 15, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff published a detailed FAQ on price transparency in auto advertising, and it’s worth a close read no matter which side of the deal you sit on: sales, Finance & Insurance (F&I), or
On September 8, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03, outlining how it will enforce the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act’s (MHPAEA) nonquantitative treatment limitation (NQTL) requirements going forward.
On September 9, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) (FCC-CIRC 2609-05) substantially revising the consent-revocation rules that were set to take effect January 31, 2027 under the Telephone Consumer
In this episode of the “Point-of-Sale Finance” series, Jason Cover is joined by colleagues Erin Edwards and Simon Fleischmann from Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services practice to shift the lens from regulatory compliance to litigation risk. The
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In this episode of Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast, hosts Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso break down California’s CARS Act, set to take effect October 1. They trace the law’s roots back to the FTC’s now-overturned CARS
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a stipulated order for permanent injunction against 5967 Ventures, LLC, doing business as Humboldt Merchant Services, resolving allegations that the payment processor facilitated fraud by opening and maintaining payment processing accounts for
As we reported in December 2025, New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights (DCR) adopted what its Attorney General described as the “most comprehensive state-level disparate impact regulations in the country” under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD). Those rules,
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, host Chris Willis is joined by colleague Kim Phan to break down the proposed regulations recently released by the Colorado attorney general (AG) under the Automated Decision-Making Technology (ADMT) Act, Colorado’s
