WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
March 26, 2025 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions held a hearing entitled “A New Era for the CFPB: Balancing Power and Reprioritizing Consumer Protections.”...more
March 20, 2025 - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that it will no longer examine national banks and federal savings associations for “reputation risk” and is purging references to “reputation risk”...more
February 25, 2025- The Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation released the Quarterly Banking Profile for Q4 2024 with reports from 4,487 commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the FDIC which reported a...more
February 24, 2025 - The European Banking Authority (EBA) published a Report assessing the availability and accessibility of data related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks as well as the feasibility of...more
February 18, 2025- Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr gave a speech entitled, “Artificial Intelligence: Hypothetical Scenarios for the Future,” at the Council on Foreign Relations....more
February 6, 2025- Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Philip N. Jefferson gave a speech entitled, “Do Non-inflationary Economic Expansions Promote Shared Prosperity? Evidence from the U.S. Labor Market,” at Swarthmore...more
February 5, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board released the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test, which helps ensure that large banks can lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession....more
Stablecoin Regulatory Framework Proposed - The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act legislation was proposed to establish a clear regulatory framework for payment stablecoins....more
January 21, 2025 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Acting Chair Travis Hill issued a statement on the FDIC’s priorities in the coming weeks and months....more
December 12, 2024- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule addressing overdrafts, applicable to banks and credit unions with more than $10 billion in assets. The rule was promptly challenged by...more
December 4, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance.”...more
December 3, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule addressing data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive personal and financial information....more
December 2, 2024 - Ahead of a hearing to examine how technology is shaping the future of finance, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43)...more
November 20, 2024 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators.” The Committee heard testimony from: The Honorable Michael Barr, Vice Chairman for...more
November 12, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board published the results of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices for October 2024. November 12, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published a working...more
October 16, 2024 - New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued new guidance to assist regulated entities in addressing and combating cybersecurity risks arising from artificial intelligence....more
August 28, 2024- Following its stress test earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Board announced final individual capital requirements for all large banks, effective on October 1....more
August 13, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog post entitled, “When Are Central Bank Reserves Ample?” August 13, 2024 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...more
August 9, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading...more
January 17, 2024- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led a letter to the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of...more
January 16, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled, "A Field Guide to Monetary Policy Implementation Issues in a New World with CBDC, Stablecoin, and Narrow Banks."...more
September 18, 2023- New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued an update on an ongoing initiative to strengthen DFS oversight of virtual currencies. September 18, 2023- The Federal Reserve Bank of New...more
June 21, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing on the following nominations: •The Honorable Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, to be Vice Chairman of the...more
June 1, 2023- The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) issued a joint consent order to facilitate the implementation...more
December 13, 2022- State bank supervisors have appointed New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris to serve as the state banking supervisor's representative on the Financial Stability...more