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On August 28, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent letters to 25 major banks requesting information regarding their overdraft policies and profits following the repeal of...more
Banks and financial institutions are among several sectors facing uncertainty on how to ensure their employment practices, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, comply with federal and state laws. ...more
On April 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a memo to staff outlining its new supervision and enforcement priorities for 2025. These priorities appear to be intended to reverse some of the more prominent...more
On August 26, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that it sent a letter to over 5,000 lenders with instructions to end “politicized and unlawful banking practices,” stating that lenders who fail to comply...more
The Trump Administration officially has announced it intends to emphasize “deregulation” with a focus of eliminating 10 regulations for every new regulation. Eliminating regulations is one thing, but enforcement is another...more
On July 14, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued Bulletin 2025-16, announcing the removal of references to disparate impact liability from the “Fair Lending” booklet of the Comptroller’s Handbook and...more
The proposal aims to free up large bank balance sheets and promote US Treasury market intermediation, which the current regulations may hinder....more
On May 9, President Donald Trump repealed two CFPB rules which were brought under the previous administration. The first action repealed the CFPB’s overdraft lending rule (S. J. Res. 18), which would have capped overdraft...more
President Donald Trump on May 9, 2025, signed into law measures to eliminate two CFPB rules established under the Biden Administration. The first rule repealed was the CFPB's Overdraft Rule, one aspect of the Biden...more
On May 9, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs announced that President Trump signed into law Chairman Tim Scott’s (R-SC) Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution, effectively overturning the...more
President Trump has signed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution nullifying the CFPB’s controversial overdraft rule. ...more
On April 11, several trade associations filed joint comments urging the FCC to revise or rescind certain rules implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) which restrict non-telemarketing informational calls. In...more
On April 15, the Treasury issued a direct final rule to eliminate several regulations or portions of regulations it deemed unnecessary in response to an Executive Order 14219 directing agencies to pursue deregulation. The...more
The resolution to nullify the CFPB’s overdraft rule now is in President Trump’s hands....more
The FDIC has rescinded an earlier Financial Institution Letter establishing a prior notification requirement for FDIC-supervised institutions that wish to engage in specified crypto-related activities and has clarified that...more
While the coming weeks and months will provide more clarity, we already can anticipate some indications of what is in store for bank regulation, supervision, and enforcement in a second Trump Administration. To help navigate...more
Financial services encompass a wide range of services offered by the nation’s financial institutions, including banking, mortgage, investment, and credit services. The next administration and Congress’s financial services...more
President Biden is calling for tougher standards and supervision for large regional banks in the wake of recent instability in the US banking sector. On March 30, 2023, the White House issued a Fact Sheet calling on the...more
PLI’s 25th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute will take place on March 23-24, 2020, in New York City (and by live webcast and groupcast in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and New...more
On January 30, 2020, five federal financial regulatory agencies published the long awaited notice of proposed rulemaking (the “NPR”) to revise certain aspects of the Volcker Rule (Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act)...more
On December 3, 2019, four federal agencies – the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), and the Office of the...more
Since the effective date of the 2018 Farm Bill, banking and the inability to acquire financing have been major impediments for the hemp industry. While demand for hemp continues to grow, banking regulations have still been...more
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Rupert Hogg has resigned in order to “take responsibility” a week “after the carrier was rebuked by China for staff involvement in the anti-Beijing protests rocking Hong Kong.” Hogg...more
PM May will live to fight another day after surviving Wednesday’s no-confidence vote. But her prospects of getting the controversial Brexit plan through the UK parliament are still poor, at best....more
Unbowed by personal attacks from the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday that markets used as an excuse to jump nearly 600 points by the closing bell. ...more