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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On November 6, the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority, and Prudential Regulation Authority issued guidance explaining how current and proposed regulatory regimes governing “e-money, stablecoins, and tokenised bank deposits” will interact, indicating that applicable financial institutions will be subject to dual or triple regulation.

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Why Buffalo is a hub for illegal debt collectors

Collection Industry News

Welcome to the world of illegal debt collections. The National Consumer Law Center calls Buffalo “an epicenter” of fraudulent debt collection activity. There are 156 debt collection companies – some of them legitimate, some not – in those two counties, employing more than 3,400 people, according to the state Labor Department.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

State Activities: On February 28, New York AG Letitia James (D) announced that her office secured more than $650,000 from a debt collection law firm and its subsidiary for filing allegedly frivolous lawsuits and “harming … New Yorkers.” For more information, click here. s Municipal Regulations. s Municipal Regulations.