A recent ruling by a Texas federal court adopts a narrow, textually driven reading of the Commodity Exchange Act, questioning whether gold and silver bullion are “commodities” within the statute’s scope....more
7/25/2025
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Commodities ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fraud ,
Jurisdiction ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Statutory Interpretation
The GENIUS Act creates a comprehensive U.S. regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. The GENIUS Act also authorizes U.S. regulators to exercise jurisdiction over foreign stablecoin issuers. Federal agencies are directed...more
On March 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) in the Federal Register that will impose new obligations on many money services...more
3/20/2025
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Compliance ,
Federal Register ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinCEN ,
Geographic Targeting Order ,
Money Services Business ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
On November 1, 2024, the next phase of several significant amendments to the New York Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) cybersecurity regulation take effect. These specific amendments, enacted in 2023, impact the...more
On July 25, 2024, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a joint statement describing potential...more
On March 12, 2024, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu indicated in a speech that regulations may soon be forthcoming that would be designed to bolster larger depository institutions’ ability to withstand...more
On February 8, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report citing its “findings on the current state of cloud adoption in the sector, including potential benefits and challenges associated with increased...more
New York has joined California and several other states in finalizing regulations requiring consumer-style disclosures for broad categories of commercial financing transactions....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the primary federal regulator charged with enforcing consumer financial protection laws, recently announced a proposed rulemaking that would require the myriad non-banks...more
As previously discussed, financial services regulators are increasingly focused on how businesses use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in underwriting and pricing consumer finance products. Although...more
New York will for the first time require companies that hold a BitLicense to pay annual assessment fees.
The new fee will increase the already high cost of obtaining a BitLicense and operating a crypto business in New...more
Regulators at the state and federal level are increasing their scrutiny of businesses’ use of artificial intelligence (AI). For example, recently, representatives from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the New...more
In response to increasingly frequent and sophisticated cybersecurity attacks on banks and bank service providers, the federal prudential banking regulators—the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of...more
12/2/2021
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Banks ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
FDIC ,
Final Rules ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
OCC ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reporting Requirements
Fintechs and other nonbanks will be required to provide consumer-style disclosures when offering to extend small business financing in New York.
In late December 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law...more