A Critical Prepositional Phrase Is Missing From This California Statute

It is a peculiar hubris of California's legislators that they often presume to extend the application of the state's laws beyond its legal borders. Corporations Code Section 2115, for example, presumes to apply multiple provisions of the California...

It's Lupercalia! CFL Annual Reports Are Due In 30 Days

Each year, licensees under the California Financing Law (Cal. Fin. Code § 22000 et seq.) must file an annual report with the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation. The report is due on the Ides of March (the Ides of March). The DFPI uses...

Legislator Proposes To Expand CFL To Encompass "Commercial Brokers"

The California Financing Law currently requires the licensing of "finance lenders" and "brokers".   Cal. Fin. Code § 22100.  A "finance lender" is defined to include "any person who is engaged in the business of making consumer loans or making...

The DFPI's Subterranean "True Lender" Doctrine

Some readers may recall that two years ago the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency adopted a "true lender" rule.  That rule The rule specified that a bank makes a loan and is the true lender if, as of the date of origination, it (1) is named...

Finance Lenders: It's Time To Pay Your Annual Assessment

The California Financing Law requires each licensed lender, broker, and program administrator licensee to pay its pro rata share of all costs and expenses of the administration of the law, as estimated by the Commissioner, for the ensuing year and...

DFPI Charges Digital Asset Company With More Than 50,000 CFL Violations

Yesterday's post concerned a bill pending in the California legislature that would impose a licensing requirement on persons engaging in "digital financial asset business activity", or holding itself out as being able to engage in "digital financial...

California Statute Permits Unlicensed "Small Dollar" Lending By Some Nonprofits

On the eve of the Great Depression, the United States Bureau of Printing and Engraving made a big change by introducing small bills. The Bureau reduced the size of bills by about 30% to save money on ink and paper - the downsizing allowed 12 bills...

For Finance Lenders, The Times They Are A-Changing

The California Financing Law (fka Finance Lenders Law) requires that persons engaged in the business of making loans be licensed by the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation (fka Department of Business Oversight fka Department of...

DBO Proposes To Transition All CFL Licensees To NMLS

The State Regulatory Registry LLC, an affiliate of the Conference of State Banking Supervisors, developed and operates the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). In 2008, Congress enacted the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage...

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