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#Fintok And Financial Regulation, Nikita Aggarwal, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Christopher K. Odinet Jan 2022

#Fintok And Financial Regulation, Nikita Aggarwal, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

Social media platforms are becoming an increasingly important site for consumer finance. This phenomenon is referred to as “FinTok,” a reference to the “#fintok” hashtag that identifies financial content on TikTok, a popular social media platform. This Essay examines the new methodological possibilities for consumer financial regulation due to FinTok. It argues that FinTok content offers a novel and valuable source of data for identifying emerging fintech trends and associated consumer risks. As such, financial regulators should use FinTok content analysis—and social media content analysis more broadly—as an additional method for the supervision and regulation of consumer financial markets. The …


Predatory Fintech And The Politics Of Banking, Christopher K. Odinet Jun 2021

Predatory Fintech And The Politics Of Banking, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

With American families living on the financial edge and seeking out high-cost loans even before COVID-19, the term financial technology or “fintech” has been used like an incantation aimed at remedying everything that’s wrong with America’s financial system. Scholars and supporters from both the public and private sector proclaim that innovations in financial technology will “bank the unbanked” and open new channels to affordable credit. This exuberance for all things tech in finance has led to a quiet yet aggressive deregulatory agenda, including, as of late, a federal assault via rulemaking on the ability of states to police the cost …


Law School News: Distinguished Research Professor: John Chung 05-24-2020, Michael M. Bowden May 2020

Law School News: Distinguished Research Professor: John Chung 05-24-2020, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.


Grab The Fire Extinguisher Comparing Uk Schemes Of Arrangement To U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy After Jevic, David S. Stevenson Nov 2019

Grab The Fire Extinguisher Comparing Uk Schemes Of Arrangement To U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy After Jevic, David S. Stevenson

Cleveland State Law Review

Corporations overwhelmed with debt frequently turn to the courts for help to restructure their credit obligations, but some courts are more helpful than others. This is especially true when creditors cannot agree on a particular resolution, let alone when some creditors will not be paid at all. International corporations often have a choice of forum—and substantive insolvency law—based on their legal and physical presence in dozens or even hundreds of countries. The UK and U.S. offer different avenues for using insolvency law to restructure debts without total liquidation, and the American avenue has become more difficult to navigate thanks to …


The New Data Of Student Debt, Christopher K. Odinet Sep 2019

The New Data Of Student Debt, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

Where you go to college and what you choose to study has always been important, but, with the help of data science, it may now determine whether you get a student loan. Silicon Valley is increasingly setting its sights on student lending. Financial technology (“fintech”) firms such as SoFi, CommonBond, and Upstart are ever-expanding their online lending activities to help students finance or refinance educational expenses. These online companies are using a wide array of alternative, education-based data points—ranging from applicants’ chosen majors, assessment scores, the college or university they attend, job history, and cohort default rates—to determine creditworthiness. Fintech …


Empowering The Poor: Turning De Facto Rights Into Collateralized Credit, Steven L. Schwarcz Jan 2019

Empowering The Poor: Turning De Facto Rights Into Collateralized Credit, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

The shrinking middle class and the widening gap between the rich and the poor constitute significant threats to social and financial stability. One of the main impediments to upward mobility is the inability of economically disadvantaged people to use their property — in which they sometimes hold only de facto, not de jure, rights — as collateral to obtain credit. This Article argues that commercial law should recognize those de facto rights, enabling the poor to borrow to start businesses or otherwise create wealth. Recognition not only would provide benefits that exceed its costs; it also would be consistent with, …


The Cfpb’S Endaround, Chris O'Brien May 2018

The Cfpb’S Endaround, Chris O'Brien

Catholic University Law Review

The financial crisis of 2008 led Congress to enact the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to better protect consumers. Although Dodd-Frank and the CFPB introduced sweeping changes to many areas of financial lending, automobile dealers and financers were expressly excluded from oversight by the CFPB. Despite this express limitation on the CFPB’s authority, the Bureau nonetheless expanded its definition of “larger participants” to encompass automobile dealers and financiers. This action has resulted in duplicative regulatory oversight and increased costs to consumers, which in turn, imposes additional burdens on those …


Consumer Bitcredit And Fintech Lending, Christopher K. Odinet May 2018

Consumer Bitcredit And Fintech Lending, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

The digital economy is changing everything, including how we borrow money. In the wake of the 2008 crisis, banks pulled back in their lending and, as a result, many consumers and small businesses found themselves unable to access credit. A wave of online firms called fintech lenders have filled the space left vacant by traditional financial institutions. These platforms are fast making antiques out of many mainstream lending practices, such as long paper applications and face-to-face meetings. Instead, through underwriting by automation — utilizing big data (including social media data) and machine learning — loan processing that once took days …


Credit Discrimination Based On Gender: The Need To Expand The Rights Of A Spousal Guarantor Under The Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Allen Abraham Jan 2016

Credit Discrimination Based On Gender: The Need To Expand The Rights Of A Spousal Guarantor Under The Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Allen Abraham

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

This Note focuses on the definition of “applicant” as defined in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B. Specifically, this Note explores the expanded protections offered by the ECOA to spousal guarantors, after the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) expanded the definition of “applicant” by promulgating Regulation B. However, after a circuit split, where the Eighth Circuit, in Hawkins v. Community Bank of Raymore, held that a guarantor was not an “applicant” per the ECOA’s definition and the Sixth Circuit, in RL BB Acquisition, LLC v. Bridgemill Commons Development Group, LLC, followed Regulation B’s expansion of the definition of …


The Export Trade Note: A New Instrument For International Trade, Eugene A. Ludwig, Michael J. Coursey Jan 2015

The Export Trade Note: A New Instrument For International Trade, Eugene A. Ludwig, Michael J. Coursey

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Immediate And Lasting Impacts Of The 2008 Economic Collapse--Lehman Brothers, General Motors, And The Secured Credit Markets, Edward J. Estrada May 2011

The Immediate And Lasting Impacts Of The 2008 Economic Collapse--Lehman Brothers, General Motors, And The Secured Credit Markets, Edward J. Estrada

University of Richmond Law Review

This article analyzes the early days of the credit crisis as well as two of the largest casualties of that period-Lehman Brothers and General Motors. In addition, by focusing on the bankruptcy proceedings of these two entities as well as other judicial decisions rendered since the financial crisis began, it examines the role that courts have played in the crisis.


Credit Arrangements, Angelo Giampietro Avv. Jan 2011

Credit Arrangements, Angelo Giampietro Avv.

Angelo Giampietro Avv.

International trade transactions can be regulated for their payment in various ways: by means of letters of credit or by cash and kind. Therefore, credit arrangements are a common and protection against risk solution. One of the most important challenges for traders involved in a transaction is to secure financing so that the transaction may actually take place. The faster and easier is the process of financing an international transaction, the more trade will be facilitated. The method of payment is crucial for the decision about the opportunity of the trading. Therefore, the arrangements for credit in international trade, play …


Private Equity's Three Lessons For Agency Theory, William Wilson Bratton Oct 2008

Private Equity's Three Lessons For Agency Theory, William Wilson Bratton

Articles

No abstract provided.


Predatory Structured Finance, Christopher L. Peterson Sep 2006

Predatory Structured Finance, Christopher L. Peterson

ExpressO

Predatory lending is a real, pervasive, and destructive problem as demonstrated by record settlements, jury awards, media exposes, and a large body of empirical scholarship. Currently the national debate over predatory mortgage lending is shifting to the controversial question of who should bear liability for predatory lending practices. In today’s subprime mortgage market, originators and brokers quickly assign home loans through a complex and opaque series of transactions involving as many as a dozen different strategically organized companies. Loans are typically transferred into large pools, and then income from those loans is “structured” to appeal to different types of investors. …


The New York Lien Law And The Garagemen’S Dilemma: Declining Metal Values Affect The Efficacy Of A Remedy, David A. Gross Apr 1988

The New York Lien Law And The Garagemen’S Dilemma: Declining Metal Values Affect The Efficacy Of A Remedy, David A. Gross

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Involuntary Fraudulent Transfers, Frank R. Kennedy Dec 1987

Involuntary Fraudulent Transfers, Frank R. Kennedy

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Standby Letters Of Credit And Fraud (Is The Standby Only Another Invention Of The Goldsmiths In Lombard Street?), John F. Dolan Jan 1985

Standby Letters Of Credit And Fraud (Is The Standby Only Another Invention Of The Goldsmiths In Lombard Street?), John F. Dolan

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Analytical View Of Recent "Lending Of Credit" Decisions In Washington State, Hugh Spitzer Jan 1985

An Analytical View Of Recent "Lending Of Credit" Decisions In Washington State, Hugh Spitzer

Seattle University Law Review

This Article first presents an analytic framework for assessing government actions that present possible violations of article VIII, sections 5 and 7, and then analyzes five recent cases interpreting those provisions.


Judicial Lien Priorities Under Article 9 Of The Uniform Commercial Code: Part I, David G. Carlson, Paul M. Shupack Jan 1984

Judicial Lien Priorities Under Article 9 Of The Uniform Commercial Code: Part I, David G. Carlson, Paul M. Shupack

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Death And Subordination Under Article 9 Of The Uniform Commercial Code: Senior Buyers And Senior Lien Creditors, David G. Carlson Jan 1984

Death And Subordination Under Article 9 Of The Uniform Commercial Code: Senior Buyers And Senior Lien Creditors, David G. Carlson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Recent Erosion Of The Secured Creditor's Rights Through Cases, Rules And Statutory Changes In Bankruptcy Law, James J. White Jan 1983

The Recent Erosion Of The Secured Creditor's Rights Through Cases, Rules And Statutory Changes In Bankruptcy Law, James J. White

Articles

One can view the law of creditors' rights as a series of cyclesin which alternatively the rights of the creditor and then those of the debtor are in ascendancy. Looking back through Americanlegislative history, one sees both the state legislatures and the Congress intervening on behalf of debtors in a variety of ways onmany occasions. An early example of such intervention was the enactment, particularly in the Midwest and West, of generous exemption laws that removed a variety of property beyond the reach of general creditors. A second example is the enactment of usury laws, which continue to be a …


Article 9 Security Interests As Voidable Preferences: Part Ii The Floating Lien, Irving A. Breitowitz Jan 1982

Article 9 Security Interests As Voidable Preferences: Part Ii The Floating Lien, Irving A. Breitowitz

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Limitations On Creditors' Rights To Require Spouses' Signatures Under The Ecoa And Washington Community Property Law, Todd M. Johnson Jan 1981

Limitations On Creditors' Rights To Require Spouses' Signatures Under The Ecoa And Washington Community Property Law, Todd M. Johnson

Seattle University Law Review

This article examines the federal regulations' interaction with Washington community property law to determine when a creditor can require the signature of a Washington applicant's spouse on either a loan instrument or security agreement in five common situations: (1) a married applicant's request for credit secured by community property, (2) a married applicant's request for credit secured by separate property, (3) a married applicant's request for general unsecured credit, (4) a married applicant's request for unsecured credit in specific reliance upon his or her income flow, and (5) a married applicant's request for unsecured credit in specific reliance upon the …


Acceleration Clause Disclosure: A Truth In Lending Policy Analysis, Patrick E. Hoog Oct 1977

Acceleration Clause Disclosure: A Truth In Lending Policy Analysis, Patrick E. Hoog

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Kentucky Law Survey: Commercial Law And Consumer Credit, Harold R. Weinberg Jan 1977

Kentucky Law Survey: Commercial Law And Consumer Credit, Harold R. Weinberg

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article is a survey of commercial law and consumer credit in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The most significant development during the past survey year was the demise of the holder in due course doctrine and other related doctrines which insulated creditors financing consumer sales from consumer claims and defenses. As a result of this development, consumers will now be able to assert claims or defenses arising out of the sale financed against the financer under certain circumstances. Other developments also surveyed herein relate to the Uniform Commercial Code statutes of frauds and prejudgment creditors’ remedies.


Seller Unequal Bargaining Power And The Judicial Process, Alan Schwartz Apr 1974

Seller Unequal Bargaining Power And The Judicial Process, Alan Schwartz

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Optimality And The Cutoff Of Defenses Against Financers Of Consumer Sales, Alan Schwartz Jan 1974

Optimality And The Cutoff Of Defenses Against Financers Of Consumer Sales, Alan Schwartz

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Validity Of Revolving Charge Accounts In Indiana, Robert W. Sikkel Apr 1973

Validity Of Revolving Charge Accounts In Indiana, Robert W. Sikkel

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Some Suggestions For Nonurgent Reforms In The Ucc's Treatment Of Accommodation Parties, James A. Martin Jan 1973

Some Suggestions For Nonurgent Reforms In The Ucc's Treatment Of Accommodation Parties, James A. Martin

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Anyone who has studied those provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC or Code) that deal with accommodation parties-chiefly Sections 3-415, 3-416, and 3-606-knows a certain amount of despair at trying to decipher the meaning of these provisions. Fortunately, most of the problems raised are fairly narrow, and few of them have yet posed significant problems for the courts, either because they have not yet arisen or (more often) because the courts have cut through ambiguous language to reach desirable and justifiable results. Thus, most of the problems discussed below do not cry out for immediate legislative attention. The position …


The Abolition Of Self-Help Repossession: The Poor Pay Even More, James J. White Jan 1973

The Abolition Of Self-Help Repossession: The Poor Pay Even More, James J. White

Articles

In this paper I propose to identify possible ways in which a court could uphold the constitutionality of section 9-503 without an explicit rejection of Fuentes v. Shevin. It is my thesis that Fuentes v. Shevin is probably an undesirable outcome, and that the application of the same doctrine to self-help repossession is certainly undesirable and would constitute due process gone berserk. My arguments will not be novel; each has been suggested by the courts that have considered this matter, or by the briefs of the lawyers who have argued these cases. I cannot even claim to have collected the …