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Banking on Crypto: Regulators Clarify Rules for Digital Asset Safekeeping

Jones Day on 7/16/2025

Federal banking regulators continue to promote a more "crypto-positive" regulatory environment through recent joint guidance issued to clarify risk management and compliance expectations for banks providing crypto-asset...more

OCC Notifies Congress of Major Email System Security Breach

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/11/2025

On April 8, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) officially notified Congress of a significant information security incident involving its email system. This notification, mandated by the Federal Information...more

OCC updates cybersecurity exam procedures

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 7/3/2023

On June 26, the OCC issued Bulletin 2023-22 announcing recent updates to the agency’s approach to cybersecurity assessment procedures. The Cybersecurity Supervision Work Program (CSW) provides high-level examination...more

Nutter Bank Report: June 2023

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 6/30/2023

The federal banking agencies have published new guidance to help banking organizations manage risks associated with third-party relationships, including relationships with financial technology (fintech) companies. The new...more

OCC Highlights Risks Associated with Compliance Staffing Concerns, Russia Sanctions, Environmental Crimes, Cyber Attacks and...

Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/30/2022

On June 23, 2022, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Semiannual Risk Perspective (SRP) for spring 2022. In the SRP, the OCC opines on its current safety and soundness concerns for banks under...more

Promissory Notes - Banking & Finance Insights, Issue 10

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 12/14/2021

Welcome to our last Promissory Notes issue of 2021. As we all know, 2021 was another interesting year in the banking and finance industry, and we expect 2022 to be much the same. Our goal, as with all of our publications, is...more

Federal Bank Regulators Approve New Cybersecurity Incident Notification Rule

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/9/2021

Last month, the FDIC, Federal Reserve Board, and the OCC announced a final rule to improve information sharing about cyber incidents that may affect the U.S. banking system. Among other things, the final rule requires...more

Federal Regulators Adopt New Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banks and Service Providers

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 12/2/2021

In response to increasingly frequent and sophisticated cybersecurity attacks on banks and bank service providers, the federal prudential banking regulators—the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of...more

Nutter Bank Report: November 2021

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 11/30/2021

Federal Banking Agencies Publish Policy Road Map for Crypto-Asset Activities - The federal banking agencies have issued a joint statement summarizing their interagency “policy sprints” focused on crypto-asset activities...more

Banks Have 36 Hours to Report Data Incident Starting May 1, 2022

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 11/22/2021

On Nov. 18, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the approval of a final rule for...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 3, August 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/7/2020

The Editors' Note - Welcome to the third issue of Decoded, Spilman's e-newsletter focusing on technology law, including data security, privacy standards, financing technologies, and digital-based means of conducting...more

The Fed May Increase Cybersecurity Standards for Large Financial Institutions and their Service Providers

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice on 6/12/2019

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has recently indicated it may move forward with enhanced cybersecurity standards that had previously been floated by the Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/2/2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss Poland's potential exemptions from the new EU data law and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recommendations for U.S. banks faced with...more

Financial Services Weekly News - August 2017 #2

Goodwin on 8/10/2017

Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released prototypes of “Know Before You Owe” overdraft disclosure forms and provided an updated rulemaking agenda for 2017; the Federal Reserve...more

Rock and a Hard Place: Banks In Search of Compliance Amid Diverging Regulatory Regimes

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 1/28/2017

Last year was the first that national banks and federal savings associations subject to supervision by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) were armed with a sense of the agency’s regulatory expectations when...more

2017 Resolutions for Community Banks: A Focus on Cybersecurity

Hogan Lovells on 1/13/2017

In December 2016, Thomas Curry, the Comptroller of the Currency, stated that cybersecurity was the single greatest systemic threat to our financial system. He was not being hyperbolic. Cybersecurity should be on...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/13/2017

Financial Industry Developments - Prohibition on Dealing or Investing in Industrial or Commercial Metals - On January 3, 2017, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC") finalized a rule that...more

Financial Services Weekly News - January 2017

Goodwin on 1/12/2017

Editor's Note - In This Issue. The NYDFS revised its proposed cybersecurity regulations, the FDIC sought comment on its new de novo bank deposit insurance handbook, federal banking agencies finalized streamlined call...more

Federal Banking Agencies Seek Comment on Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards for Large Banks

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 12/15/2016

To address the increasing risk of technology failures and cyber-attacks affecting the largest banking organizations, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking titled Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards (the ANPR) was...more

Banks to Broaden Reporting of Suspicious Cyber Activity; Regulators Propose “Enhanced” Cybersecurity Standards

Carlton Fields on 11/23/2016

The fourth quarter of 2016 has seen an uptick in regulatory activity respecting the financial services sector in the cybersecurity space, both at the state level as previously discussed (here) and on the federal level....more

Federal Regulators Unveil Proposed Cybersecurity Standards for Large Financial Firms

Bracewell LLP on 11/21/2016

On October 19, 2016, federal regulators issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards.” The draft standards, jointly released by the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit...more

New York and Feds Leading the Charge on Financial Institution Cybersecurity Regulations

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/21/2016

Both federal and state officials recently proposed new regulations aimed at the financial sector in an effort to promote protection against high-impact technology failures and cyberattacks...more

Banking Regulators Propose Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards

McGuireWoods LLP on 11/10/2016

On October 19, 2016, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (together, the “Prudential Regulators”) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking...more

Major Bank Regulators Propose Expanded Cybersecurity Regulations

Alston & Bird on 11/9/2016

On October 19, 2016, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (the “agencies”) issued a joint...more

Lessons from the Wells Fargo Scandal

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/1/2016

Financial institutions must meet standards for safeguarding customer data given the particularly sensitive information they hold, and regulators have been stepping up their efforts to provide guidance on just how they must do...more

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