Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Steven Lofchie is a Partner based in New York. He advises financial institutions and corporate clients on the securities laws and the Commodity Exchange Act, with particular focus on the regulation of broker-dealers, swap dealers, investment funds and other market intermediaries. Steven's transactional practice focuses on securities credit and derivative transactions.
Recent Articles & Comments
The CFPB's payday lending requirements seem intended as much to prevent payday lending by imposing regulations that are impractical to follow. The policy question is whether this effective prohibition is good for those who actually need to borrow money or whether government's protective or prohibitive policies hurt those whom it purports to help. This is not an easy question, but query whether the CFPB really tried to answer it before it adopted its anti-payday lending rules.…
Who voted for as a priority for review? And why?
FDIC Chair McWilliams' comments focused to a significant degree on assisting banks in providing services to the poor and overextended, those who live "paycheck to paycheck" and who sometimes "need immediate access to cash to cover an unexpected cost before the next paycheck." The business of lending money to those who urgently need small amounts for short periods was disparagingly referred to as "payday lending." Under the CFPB's prior administration the CFPB adopted rules that would…
As previously , the NYDFS rules are open-ended, complex and burdensome and will result in creating many new ways for the government to collect fines when something goes wrong.