The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Debt and Lending Markets: Current Trends Impacting Private Equity Sponsors — PE Pathways Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prof. Hal Scott Doubles Down on His Argument That CFPB is Unlawfully Funded Because of Combined Losses at Federal Reserve Banks
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Did the Supreme Court Hand the CFPB a Pyrrhic Victory?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Understanding the Federal Reserve Board Proposal to Lower Interchange Fee Cap for Debit Card Transactions
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Community Reinvestment Act Reform: A Close Look at the Final Rule
The Future of Payments: Exploring FedNow With the Payments Professor — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Federal Banking Interagency Final Guidance on Third-Party Relationships - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What is FedNow and its Role in the U.S. Payments System?
Breaking (Down) the Debt Ceiling
Podcast: 2023 Deal Cycle - Considerations for Transactions in Uncertain Economic Times - Diagnosing Health Care
Crypto Year in Review 2022: Federal Reserve and Central Bank Digital Currencies and FDIC/OCC Regulatory Developments - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Is the U.S. Payments System Failing Business and Consumers? A Discussion with Special Guest Dan Awrey, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
DE Under 3: Latest Monthly Jobs Report, Unemployment & the US BLS JOLTS Report
Stablecoin Regulation in an Unstable Time: The Fed and Treasury Address a Stablecoin Regulatory Framework
Congressional and Federal Agency Action Following Executive Order on Digital Assets Policy
The Return of TALF Fund Opportunities Via COVID-19 Relief
Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): Recap and What to Expect in 2014
In an expected move, the federal banking regulators issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind Biden-era amendments to the 2023 regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The NPRM, issued by...more
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have sent letters to financial regulators asking them to rescind a variety of measures the regulators issued during the Biden Administration....more
In Short - The Situation: Over the course of 2023, the Financial Stability Oversight Council ("FSOC") took steps that increase the risk of nonbank financial companies and financial activities being designated as...more
Guidance for the largest US financial institutions is intended to promote climate risk management consistent with general safety and soundness practices. On October 30, 2023, the three US federal bank regulatory agencies...more
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
In the past year, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) Biden administration officials, and other U.S. banking regulators have repeatedly voiced growing concerns about certain cryptoasset...more
One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges - FTX Trading Ltd. - and many of its affiliates filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. While the full impact of the FTX bankruptcy is not yet clear, various responses from...more
Recently, the full Senate confirmed Michael Barr to a four-year term as Vice Chair for Supervision and to Randal Quarles’ unexpired term as a member of the Board of Governors. That unexpired term as a member of the Board will...more
President Biden spent nearly 18 months assembling his team of top financial services regulators. Michael Barr’s nomination as the top banking regulator at the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) will fill the last remaining vacancy...more
The President issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets on March 9, 2022. The value of the cryptocurrency and digital assets sector exceeds $3 trillion and has the potential to grow much...more
On March 9, 2022, President Joe Biden issued an executive order outlining a “whole-of-government” approach to examining a broad range of potential risks associated with the dramatic growth in digital assets, including...more
Following the SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline cyberattacks, the Biden Administration emphasized a shift toward mandatory cybersecurity requirements. Throughout 2021, government agencies issued new cybersecurity guidance,...more
In This Issue. President Joe Biden issued a sweeping executive order aimed at cracking down on anticompetitive practices and reducing consolidation across multiple industry sectors, including financial services; the Federal...more
On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Order, breathtaking in scope, asserts as a key goal the desire to improve the lives of consumers through...more
In This Issue. In a move that gives him the opportunity to put his stamp on housing policy and the potential overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, President Biden replaced the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency...more
In This Issue. President Biden signed an executive order addressing climate-related financial risks; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized a rule applicable to national banks and federal savings...more
In This Issue. President Biden signed a bill extending the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through May 31, 2021; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the rescission...more
The latest and greatest from Fed Chair Powell as the Fed’s March Open Markets Committee meeting wrapped yesterday, including a markets-pleasing assurance that better-than-expected economic growth wasn’t enough to push the...more
In this Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a statement announcing its intention to revisit Trump-era qualified mortgage (QM) final rules; the Biden Administration announced changes to the Small...more
In this Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was very active this week, having (i) issued no-action relief allowing registered funds to engage in self-custody of interests in loans that are originated,...more
UK Set to Move Forward on BNPL Regulation - The United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently issued a report on the market conditions for buy-now pay-later (BNPL) unsecured lending. The report recommends...more
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is “poised to become the first female Treasury secretary and one of few people to ever have wielded economic power from the White House, the Federal Reserve and the president’s cabinet.” If...more
Below is a broad overview of policies for which President-Elect Biden has indicated support (PDF). It is important to note that, while some of these policies fall under the President's executive power, many will require...more