Daily Compliance News: August 21, 2025, The Fabricated Evidence Edition
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 7, 2025
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
In the latest edition of its Consumer Compliance Outlook, the Federal Reserve (Fed) identified the four most significant fair lending violations that it found in examining state member banks in 2022. These are violations that...more
When the new 2023 CRA Rule was approved by regulators FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg indicated one of the goals was to “raise the bar” for CRA performance ratings. Now that the final 2023 CRA performance ratings are in it...more
On June 13, 2024, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra appeared before the House Financial Services Committee for a hearing, “The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.” As we expected, the House Financial...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
A study in the Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) by the Federal Reserve Board on consumer lending found that financial technology (FinTech) lenders are able to take advantage of federal preemptions from state...more
Headlines: CFPB Reminds Credit Bureaus and Furnishers of Their Obligations to Investigate Disputes The CFPB has issued guidance on the obligations of both credit bureaus and furnishers of consumer credit information,...more
Like most industries today, Consumer Finance Services businesses are being significantly impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Troutman Pepper has developed a dedicated COVID-19 Resource Center to guide clients...more
The New York Department of Financial Services has sent a letter to the institutions that it regulates requiring each such institution, by February 7, 2020, to provide to DFS a description of its “plan to address its LIBOR...more
On July 26, 2018, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB“) announced the launch of the “Consumer Compliance Supervision Bulletin” (the “Bulletin“) and simultaneously published its first issue. ...more
Facebook may have had a difficult day on the Hill. But a 79% rise in Q3 profit—driven, ironically enough, by online ads—should help soften the blow....more
Agencies Propose Simplifying Regulatory Capital Rules - On September 27, 2017, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced a proposed...more
Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken a sizeable stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb, a move that reportedly caught execs at the drugmaker unawares and sets the stage for a potential sale....more
On December 1, 2016, the FDIC will co-host an interagency webinar that will focus on Military Lending Act regulations and the Department of Defense’s recently-released interpretive rule. In addition to a CFPB...more
According to Politico, the CFPB, OCC, Fed and FDIC have launched a review of bank sales practices, with the reviews to be conducted as special reviews rather than as part of the regular examination process....more
Holding companies appear to be an important new feature of the “living will” revisions the big banks have been making in an effort to appease the Fed and FDIC’s efforts to stamp out “too big to fail” entities. The idea is for...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued an interpretive rule to assist the industry in complying with its July 2015 final rule amending the Military Lending Act’s implementing regulation. The much-anticipated guidance was...more