Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
Daily Compliance News: July 31, 2025. The Forgotten Generation Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Citibank and Continuous Monitoring
Wire Fraud Litigants Beware: Fourth Circuit Ruling Protects the Banks — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Top challenges with Compliance Management
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Banking on Lending Models — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Understanding MALPB Charters: A Collaborative Approach to Banking Innovation — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
The fatal flaws in the 2023 CRA rule
Fraud, the silent epidemic
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Private Civil Consumer Financial Services Litigation to Partially Fill CFPB Void - Part 1
Daily Compliance News: April 21, 2025, The Tribute to Pope Francis Edition
Predictions regarding the 2023 CRA Rule and Section 1071 and how to prepare for expected developments
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
Strengthening Compliance: Lessons From the OCC's Consent Order With Patriot Bank — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Navigating 2025: Federal Legislative and Regulatory Updates on Stablecoins and Decentralized Finance — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Third-Party Risk The competitive world of banking struggles to keep up with technological advances, particularly in a regulatory environment.
Deposit Account Litigation: Highlights From 2024 and What to Expect in 2025 — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Our Financial Services and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Teams examine the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s new customer identification program (CIP) exemption that allows banks and credit unions to...more
In a significant move, on June 27, 2025 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order granting banks and their subsidiaries an exemption from the Customer Identification...more
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order (Order) allowing banks,[1] and their subsidiaries, subject to the jurisdiction of the Office of the Comptroller...more
Ever since the 1995 CRA rule was published bank regulators have mandated certain “community” and “market” benchmarks as the basis for rating bank performance under the CRA regulations. Most of that data is in the public...more
Attorney General James sued a national bank and its holding company for the bank's alleged practices relating to its offering of online savings accounts. Specifically, the AG claims that the bank offered a "high interest"...more
Banks play a pivotal role in the economic wellbeing of our nation and local communities. Banks do this by being “financial intermediaries” facilitating the flow of funds between savers and borrowers. This obligation is so...more
On October 23, a group of banking organizations filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas seeking to challenge a decision impacting the CFPB’s Section 1071 rule. The plaintiffs now...more
In Texas Bankers Association v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied a summary judgment motion by the Texas Bankers Association and other plaintiffs to set...more
On October 22, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized its long-anticipated rule implementing Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The 594-page final rule arrives nearly one year after the CFPB’s...more
CFPB Issues Filing Instructions Guide for Small Business Lending Data - The CFPB has published instructions for banks and other covered financial institutions to submit small business lending data that is required to be...more
The FDIC board on July 30 agreed to request information on deposit data that currently is not reported in the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Call Reports—including data on uninsured deposits....more
In October of this year, the Central Bank of Brazil announced an important measure to simplify the consent renewal process within the field of Open Finance. Joint Resolution No. 7/2023—which will amend certain articles of...more
Developing and maintaining an inclusive environment is crucial for realising the benefits of having a diverse organisation. With this in mind, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and UK Prudential Regulation Authority...more
On August 10, two credit union trade associations — Credit Union National Association (CUNA) and Cornerstone Credit Union League — and Rally Credit Union (collectively, Proposed Intervenors) filed an Unopposed Emergency...more
On July 27, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, FBAs) issued their long-awaited...more
Regulatory Developments - FDIC Publishes Consumer Compliance Supervisory Highlights - On April 5, the FDIC published its latest edition of Consumer Compliance Supervisory Highlights (the Highlights). This edition of...more
Now, I would never be mistaken for a Trekker, but there are some lines from the series that everyone of a certain age knows and this is one of them. As a veteran of the mobile payment wars, I quickly learned the bête noire...more
In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to update and expand the statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants must provide to investors for the first time in 30...more
On July 24, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced plans to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) regarding consumer-authorized third party access to financial records. The...more
Still-new TIkTok CEO Kevin Mayer has stepped down, “just months after taking the helm of the viral short video app.” ByteDance had appointed Mayer in May in an effort “to make the case that TikTok operates as a separate...more
Almost all banks and financial institutions that utilize third party behavioral advertising cookies have taken the position that the collection of information utilizing such cookies on their websites does not constitute a...more
The financial services industry had been waiting with bated breath to see how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) would resume efforts to prescribe rules and give guidance to implement the far-reaching Section...more
California passed a sweeping new privacy law that will impact many businesses. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) is the first U.S. law to grant consumers extensive rights as to their personal information and...more
The CFPB recently issued the 2020 Filing Instructions Guide for Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. The Guide applies to HMDA data collected in calendar year 2020 that must be reported to the government in 2021....more
California’s new privacy statute imposes a number of new requirements on businesses that touch the personal information of California consumers. Its reach includes banks and financial services companies....more