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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States federal agency created in 1933 in response to widespread bank failures in the 1920s and early 1930s.  The FDIC's mission is to maintain stability and consumer confidence in the United States banking system by insuring deposits, monitoring the health of financial institutions and managing receiverships.  less -
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Hot Topics in International Trade - August 2025 - GENIUS Act Establishes Legal Framework for Payment Stablecoins

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The President signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025’or ‘‘GENIUS Act of 2025’” (the Act) on July 18, 2025. The new law establishes a basis for regulators to permit a...more

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Banking Industry Outlook: Potential Surge in Banking Mergers and Acquisitions

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Mergers and acquisitions continue to be a critical strategy for banks aiming to bolster their market presence and operational efficiency. The United States has 4,500+ banks, 4,000+ credit unions, and a large number of...more

Goodwin

2024 Year in Review - Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends

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Welcome to the “Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. As Goodwin predicted in our previous year in review, the enforcement and...more

DLA Piper

Blockchain and Digital Assets News and Trends – February 2025

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This periodic bulletin is designed to help companies identify important legal developments governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital assets....more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Trump 2.0: A New Era for the Regulation of Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

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President Trump campaigned on the promise to make the United States the “crypto capital” of the world. In his first days in office, he took steps to advance that goal, including by signing an executive order designed to...more

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New Administration Outlook: An Opening for a National Payments/Fintech Charter – and a Pathway to Financial Modernization?

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Recent announcements by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) and X might signal that financial modernization may have finally reached a tipping point. With the right regulatory environment, fintechs and other new market...more

Goodwin

What’s Next for Fintechs in 2025? Key Regulatory Developments to Watch

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With the start of the new year comes new regulatory priorities, regulatory challenges, and regulatory opportunities for fintechs. Below, we lay out considerations for 2025 given the change in administration and accompanying...more

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CFPB finalizes rule on defining larger market fintech participants

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On November 21, the CFPB issued its final rule defining larger participants in the digital consumer payment applications market. The rule does not impose new substantive consumer protection requirements, but it does subject...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

National Trust Banks – Revisited for Crypto and Payments

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In the absence of modern charters and licenses, payments companies and other fintechs—both established financial services providers and new market entrants—must generally obtain 50+ money transmitter and possibly other state...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - November 2024 # 2

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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

Jones Day

FDIC Proposes New Requirements for Custodial Accounts to Qualify for Pass-Through

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The Situation: On September 17, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") approved a proposed rule ("the Proposal") that would establish new recordkeeping requirements for FDIC-insured depository institutions...more

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New FDIC Recordkeeping Requirements: Director Chopra Cautions Against a New Form of “Rent-a-Bank”

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On September 17, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) rulemaking board proposed new recordkeeping rules intended to bolster the FDIC’s ability to make deposit insurance determinations for accounts that are...more

Perkins Coie

FDIC’s Proposed Changes to Custodial Deposit Accounts: Practical Implications for Fintechs and Their Banks

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the Proposal) on September 17, 2024, that seeks to strengthen recordkeeping for bank deposits held by nonbank companies on behalf of...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Where the F(BO) Is the Money? Part 1 – Synapse’s Clarion Call for Standards

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This is the first of three articles focused on a key question: as bank-fintech partnerships continue to play a vital role in driving financial services, how does the industry make this system safer and better?...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: July 2024

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The federal banking agencies have published joint guidance for banks about risks posed by fintech companies and other third parties to deliver bank deposit products and services. The joint guidance issued on July 30...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Demystifying the Banking Regulators’ Recent Crypto Actions: Key Takeaways for Fintech Companies

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The last few years had started to see a convergence between crypto and banking, with bitcoin appearing to rapidly grow mainstream. That momentum hit a wall with the spectacular crypto market failures of 2022, including the...more

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Treasury Calls for Enhanced Supervision of Fintech Partnerships

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On November 16, 2022, the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) issued a report titled “Assessing the Impact of New Entrant Non-bank Firms on Competition in Consumer Finance Markets” (“Treasury Report”), which, among other...more

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The Distributed Ledger: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Smart Contracts

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A flurry of legal and enforcement activity has arisen over the last two weeks across a wide range of areas in the Web3 space, including actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of Foreign Assets Control,...more

Jones Day

All Talk, No Action? The Fintech Regulatory Plot Thickens

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Jones Day's new Of Counsel Nathan Brownback and Partner Josh Sterling discuss recent developments in the U.S. legal landscape for fintech, including the bipartisan Stabenow-Boozman bill, designed to regulate digital assets....more

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Federal Banking Regulators Shine Light Again on Third-Party Risk Management

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Federal banking regulators have again demonstrated their focus on bank oversight and management of risk from third party relationships through a series of guidance and proposed guidance published in the third quarter of 2021....more

Hogan Lovells

Global Payments Newsletter, September 2021

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Key developments of interest over the last month include: El Salvador: Bitcoin becomes legal tender European Union: European Commission proposes Path to the Digital Decade to deliver EU's digital transformation by 2030...more

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Federal Banking Regulators Release Guide For Community Banks Conducting Due Diligence On Fintech Companies

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On August 27, 2021, the Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC and the OCC (the “Agencies”) jointly released a guide titled “Conducting Due Diligence on Financial Technology Companies—A Guide for Community Banks” (the “Guide”),...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Most De Novo Banks Will Be Formed by Payments and Fintech Companies

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In the future, most de novo banks in the United States will be formed by existing payments and nonbank fintech companies that provide financial services, or groups of players in those industries that want to form a payments...more

Woods Rogers

Should Your Bank Offer Bitcoin Services?

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As consumer demand for bitcoin rises, a small but growing number of community banks are working with their vendors to allow customers to buy, hold, and sell bitcoin and other digital assets. These efforts involve a bank’s...more

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Fintech in Brief: FDIC Solicits Information on Digital Assets

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On May 17, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) issued a Request for Information and Comment (the “RFI”) on Digital Assets. The FDIC is interested in getting input from all interested parties on the...more

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