Financial Forward: The Future of Consumer Finance & Banking
McCarthy Hatch
36 episodes
3 weeks ago
Send us a text Episode Summary Amy — a retired Texas teacher living on a fixed income — whose protected retirement funds were swept from her bank account to satisfy an old, likely time-barred credit-card judgment. By filing a detailed complaint with the CFPB and notifying both the collector and the bank that the funds were protected under Texas law, Amy triggered a reversal and got her money back. The episode explores why precision in language matters, what ‘protected funds’ and ‘time-barred ...
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Send us a text Episode Summary Amy — a retired Texas teacher living on a fixed income — whose protected retirement funds were swept from her bank account to satisfy an old, likely time-barred credit-card judgment. By filing a detailed complaint with the CFPB and notifying both the collector and the bank that the funds were protected under Texas law, Amy triggered a reversal and got her money back. The episode explores why precision in language matters, what ‘protected funds’ and ‘time-barred ...
Crebit: Cheaper, Faster Tuition Payments from Brazil/Mexico to U.S. Schools
Financial Forward: The Future of Consumer Finance & Banking
15 minutes
1 month ago
Crebit: Cheaper, Faster Tuition Payments from Brazil/Mexico to U.S. Schools
Send us a text Episode summaryPaying U.S. college tuition from abroad can be slow, expensive, and confusing. Crebit says it fixes that by letting families in Brazil and Mexico pay locally (PIX or bank transfer), converting funds to USD, and delivering a check directly to the school—positioning itself as a faster, lower-cost alternative to incumbents like Wise and Flywire. We unpack how the product works, the regulatory plumbing (KYC/AML, FX/US checks), where the savings come from, and what th...
Financial Forward: The Future of Consumer Finance & Banking
Send us a text Episode Summary Amy — a retired Texas teacher living on a fixed income — whose protected retirement funds were swept from her bank account to satisfy an old, likely time-barred credit-card judgment. By filing a detailed complaint with the CFPB and notifying both the collector and the bank that the funds were protected under Texas law, Amy triggered a reversal and got her money back. The episode explores why precision in language matters, what ‘protected funds’ and ‘time-barred ...
