The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act of 2025 (the “GENIUS Act” and the “Act”) establishes a regulatory infrastructure for defining, managing, custodying and issuing a specific kind of...more
6/24/2025
/ Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
FDIC ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinCEN ,
Investment ,
OCC ,
Payment Systems ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Service Professionals ,
Stablecoins ,
U.S. Treasury
On March 17th, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) conditionally approved the application for the newly renamed SmartBiz Bank N.A. (“SmartBiz Bank”) to change its business model in support of its fintech...more
3/20/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Banking Regulators ,
Banking Sector ,
Compliance ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Mergers ,
OCC ,
Regulatory Reform
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) is requesting public comment on its proposal to rescind its 2024 Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions (“2024 Policy Statement”) and reinstate its prior Statement...more
3/13/2025
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Bank Merger Act ,
Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
FDIC ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Reform
On February 12th, the White House announced numerous nominations to be sent to the Senate. The large list of nominations included three nominations for financial regulators. President Trump is nominating, Jonathan Gould to be...more
On February 5, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) released 175 documents related to supervision of banks it oversees that either engaged in or sought to engage in crypto-related activities. Acting Chairman...more
This week, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Director Jonathan McKernan gave remarks to the ISDA Conference on Trading Book Capital on Basel III Implementation....more
Last Friday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the ECB Forum on Banking Supervision in Frankfurt, Germany entitled The Importance of Effective Liquidity Risk...more
12/8/2023
/ Banks ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FRB ,
Investment ,
Lending ,
Liquidity ,
Liquidity Risk Management Rule ,
Risk Management
This week, the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held oversight hearings with leaders of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), the National Credit...more
11/17/2023
/ Banks ,
Basel III ,
Depository Institutions ,
FDIC ,
Financial Regulatory Agencies ,
Financial Services Committee ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FRB ,
NCUA ,
OCC ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Senate Banking Committee
On Wednesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) released a long-awaited report on its review of the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) System. The FHFA first announced its FHLB System at 100 initiative in August of...more
11/13/2023
/ Banks ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Federal Reserve ,
FHFA ,
FHLB ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Liquidity ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgages ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Residential Real Estate Market
As we mentioned last week, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) announced proposed changes to Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), which is the implementing regulation of the Durbin Amendment to the...more
11/3/2023
/ Comment Period ,
Debit and Credit Card Transactions ,
Debit Cards ,
Durbin Amendment Rules ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FRB ,
Interchange Fees ,
Regulation II ,
Regulatory Agenda
On Tuesday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, the “Agencies”) issued a final rule to amend and update...more
Last week, Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) Governor Michelle Bowman gave a speech entitled Financial Stability in Uncertain Times, focusing on the “financial stability risks and vulnerabilities” she is most focused on....more
On Monday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the American Bankers Association Annual Convention entitled Capital Supports Lending regarding the Basel III...more
Recently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) released its annual Summary of Deposits (“SOD”) data, as of June 2023.
The annual SOD data is the result of the FDIC’s annual survey of branch office deposits...more
On Wednesday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Chair Martin Gruenberg gave remarks to the Exchequer Club of Washington on the financial stability risks of nonbank financial institutions....more
As we covered previously, on July 27, 2023, the U.S. prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”)...more
In addition to approving the long-term debt proposal (“LTD NPR”) we discuss in another article this week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Board had a busy day on Tuesday. As we noted last week, when the...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, the “Agencies”) issued a proposed rule (the “LTD NPR”) to require large banks...more
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) gave notice that its Board of Directors will meet next week with the following discussion agenda:
Memorandum and resolution re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Long-term...more
On Monday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Chair Martin Gruenberg gave remarks to the Brookings Institution on “The Resolution of Large Regional Banks.” Chair Gruenberg did not say “I told you so” in his...more
On July 27, 2023, the U.S. federal prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) proposed new capital requirements...more
The Federal Reserve Bank announced last week that its instant payments system, FedNow, is now live with 35 banks and credit unions, which means that “[b]anks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up and use this tool to...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a Financial Institution Letter (“FIL”) earlier this week regarding banks’ errors in reporting estimated uninsured deposits....more
Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks, titled “Furthering the Vision of the Fair Housing Act,“ to the National Fair Housing Alliance 2023 National Conference earlier...more
7/21/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bias ,
Community Reinvestment Act ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Discrimination ,
Discriminatory Lending Practices ,
ECOA ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Fair Lending ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Machine Learning
Recently, the Federal Reserve Board issued the aggregate and individual results of the supervisory stress test (also known as the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test or DFAST, as these tests are required by Section 165 of the...more