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
This second installment in a series of insights on bank charter considerations describes the consequences of operating through an insured depository institution charter, including capital requirements, supervision and...more
A federal court has issued an order granting an injunction that delays the compliance dates for the CFPB’s final rule governing the collection of small business lending data required by Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall...more
On December 15, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) setting forth standards to apply to controlling shareholders of industrial banks that are not subject to consolidated...more
In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it adopted Rule 12d1-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), providing a new regulatory framework for fund-of-funds and final...more
On August 20, 2019, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) approved amendments to the regulations implementing Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act,...more
Federal Reserve and FDIC Post Resolution Plans for Eight Major Financial Firms - On July 5, 2017, the Federal Reserve Board (the "Board") and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") posted the public portions of...more
On December 15, 2016, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) issued final rules requiring global systemically important banks (“G-SIBs”) in the United States, including bank holding...more
Three federal banking regulatory agencies have approved an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) inviting comment on a set of potential enhanced cybersecurity risk-management and resilience standards that would apply...more
1. Question: What is the Volcker Rule, and when does it take effect? Answer: The Volcker Rule was enacted into law as section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank...more
When the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) finalized the Liquidity Coverage...more
On April 8, 2014, the FRB, FDIC and OCC (collectively, the “Agencies”) released a final rule (the “Final Rule”) concerning the leverage ratio standards for large, interconnected U.S. banking organizations. The Final Rule...more
On December 19, 2013, the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC issued a Proposed Addendum to the Interagency Policy Statement on Income Tax Allocation in a Holding Company Structure. The agencies are currently soliciting comments,...more
On December 19, Fed, FDIC and OCC issued a statement seeking comment on supplemental guidance on income tax allocation agreements involving holding companies and insured depository institutions. ...more
On October 23, 2013, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “Agencies”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking...more
The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, have released an optional model template for tailored resolution plans that certain firms will be submitting for the first time later this...more
The Federal Reserve Board today approved the publication of the long-awaited final regulatory capital rules (“Final Rules” ), which were proposed one year ago (the “Proposed Rules”). While today’s action was taken by the...more
In this issue: - CFTC Adopts Final Rules for Execution Facilities and Other Matters - FINRA Issues Interpretive Guidance on Use of Back Tested Index Data by ETPs - Mississippi District Court Defers to New...more
Many banks formed holding companies in the late 1980s and 1990s. They had various reasons for doing this. Some formed a holding company to hold subsidiaries providing nonbank activities. Some used the holding company to...more