On March 10, 2023 the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation ("CDFPI") closed Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB"), a California chartered, non-member bank. The CDFPI placed SVB into receivership and appointed...more
10/5/2023
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On Friday, March 10, 2023, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation closed Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") was appointed SVB's receiver....more
3/15/2023
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On Friday, March 10, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) was appointed the receiver for Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). The FDIC created the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara (“DINB”) and...more
3/13/2023
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In an effort to align the permissibility of crypto activities for all member banks of the Federal Reserve System (the "FRS", which includes all national banks and state member banks), the Board of Governors of the Federal...more
2/15/2023
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the "Federal Reserve") has over several decades defined when an activity engaged in by foreign banks subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (the "BHCA"), which are thus...more
On November 23, 2021, the Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Comptroller Benjamin W. McDonough of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC") issued OCC Interpretive Letter 1179 (dated November 18, 2021) ("IL...more
On December 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.Title X of Division N of that law ("Title X") contains several provisions that change the authority of the Board of Governors of...more