On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the Guaranteed Essential National Infrastructure for U.S. Act (the “GENIUS Act”) into law, marking the first comprehensive U.S. federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. ...more
On June 28, 2024, in an effort to bolster financial institutions’ anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (“AML/CFT”) programs, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) recently sought comment on a proposed rule designed to increase the transparency of the standards applicable to the OCC’s review of business combinations (i.e., bank...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) recently published a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on proposed revisions to the FDIC’s Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions (the “SOP”). Relevant...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) recently sought comment on a proposed rule designed to increase the transparency of the standards applicable to the OCC’s review of business combinations (i.e., bank...more
On October 24, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (together, the “Agencies”) issued a final rule designed to...more