Daily Compliance News: August 6, 2025, The Spanking Banks Edition
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 31, 2025. The Forgotten Generation Edition
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
Compliance Tip of the Day: Citibank and Continuous Monitoring
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The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
2023 CRA Rule Repeal: Lessons to be Learned
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 14, 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 7, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 5, 2025, The Asset Cap Lifted Edition
Understanding MALPB Charters: A Collaborative Approach to Banking Innovation — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Compliance and AI: Revolutionizing Risk Management with John Byrne
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 26, 2025
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
Creativity and Compliance: Innovating Ethics - Creativity in Corporate Compliance with Katie Lawler
On August 7, President Donald Trump signed the “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” executive order (EO) directing federal banking regulators to investigate financial institutions that have restricted access to...more
Fifteen years ago, in the shadow of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress adopted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), the most significant change to financial regulation since the...more
On August 7, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for all Americans” (EO). The EO broadly prohibits banks and other financial institutions from engaging in “politicized or...more
On July 22, 2025, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) hosted a first-of-its-kind industry conference designed to solicit public input on reform of the U.S. capital framework for financial...more
Recently, two members of the Fed, the Vice Chair for Supervision, Michelle Bowman, and Governor Michael Barr, both spoke on the ongoing challenges and opportunities in advancing financial inclusion across the U.S. Both...more
On July 30, the president’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets released a report setting out a coordinated federal approach to digital asset regulation. The report called for agencies to provide clearer guidance and...more
The FDIC is proposing to replace its Supervision Appeals Review Committee (SARC) with an independent, standalone office, known as the Office of Supervisory Appeals (OSA). Under the proposal, the OSA would be the final level...more
In an expected move, the federal banking regulators issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind Biden-era amendments to the 2023 regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The NPRM, issued by...more
In a pivotal week for digital asset policy, federal banking regulators issued long-awaited guidance outlining risk-management expectations for crypto-asset safekeeping activities. The OCC, Federal Reserve and FDIC released a...more
In a significant shift, each of the country's three federal bank regulatory agencies have announced they will no longer consider reputational risk as a stand-alone supervisory category. Originally published in Law360 -...more
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law S. 1582, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the “GENIUS Act” or the “Act”). The Act covers payment stablecoins[1]—a relatively new form...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) has formally revised its fair lending examination procedures, announcing in Bulletin 2025-16, issued on July 14, 2025, that it has eliminated all references to disparate...more
On July 15, 2025, the Federal Reserve Board released a proposed rule to revise the Large Financial Institution rating system or "LFI Framework." The proposal would change how the Fed evaluates the financial and managerial...more
On Thursday, July 10, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jonathan Gould to serve as the next Comptroller of the Currency in a 50–45 vote. Gould will succeed Acting Comptroller Rodney Hood, who offered his congratulations and...more
On June 27, the OCC, the Fed, and the FDIC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio standards for U.S. global systemically important banks (GSIBs) and their subsidiaries. The...more
On July 3, the House of Representatives passed H.R.1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to reduce the cap on amounts the CFPB can request from the Fed to fund its operations from 12 percent to 6.5 percent of the Fed’s total...more
Last week, the US federal banking regulators proposed changes to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (“eSLR”) requirement for US global systemically important bank holding companies (“US GSIBs”) (the “Proposal”)....more
On June 23, the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), penned a letter raising concerns over reports that the Fed, the FDIC, and the OCC intended to...more
On June 23, the Fed announced it will no longer include reputational risk as a component of its examination programs in its supervision of banks. This move will align the Fed with the OCC, which made a similar announcement in...more
The U.S. Senate passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act or GENIUS Act (S.1582) (the Act) in a 68-30 bipartisan vote on June 17, 2025. The GENIUS Act would provide a clear regulatory...more
On June 23, the Federal Reserve Board announced that reputational risk will no longer be a component of its bank-examination program. The same day, the Board released a revised edition of its Guidelines for Rating Risk...more
This week, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB") and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPR") to amend the Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio (“eSLR”). At the time of...more
With a focus on pragmatic and risk-based oversight, new leadership at the Federal Reserve signals a shift in the regulatory landscape for U.S. banks. Earlier this month, the Senate confirmed Federal Reserve Governor Michelle...more
Last Friday, following her confirmation by the Senate as Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair of Supervision, Michelle Bowman laid out some of her priorities in a speech entitled “Taking a Fresh Look at Supervision and...more
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week....more