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
On June 13, the OCC, the Fed, and the FDIC jointly issued an RFI seeking public input on ways to address rising payments fraud, with a particular emphasis on check fraud. The request for information seeks stakeholder feedback...more
On April 9, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City published a research briefing examining how video game platforms are reshaping the digital payments landscape. As in-game purchases and platform-based transactions grow in...more
The CFPB has adopted a final rule to extend its oversight to the largest nonbank providers of digital consumer payment applications, including those that enable transfers from deposit accounts held at banks and other insured...more
The Federal Reserve has announced that its FedNowSM Service, a new interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments, went live on July 20 with 35 early-adopting banks and credit unions. The...more
In This Issue: ..The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-04 (Circular) in relation to safeguarding consumer data under the Consumer Financial Protection Act...more
On March 1, 2022, the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) proposed a new framework for evaluating “master account” applications for direct access to the Fed’s payment system. The proposal builds upon the Fed’s original proposal from...more
In This Issue. The Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) issued a report acknowledging climate change as threat to financial stability; Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman advocates for...more
The Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve announced in August 2019 that it will develop a new 24x7x365 real time gross settlement (RTGS) system called FedNow. The new system will allow near-instant settlement of...more
Federal Reserve Announces Plan for Real-Time Payment and Settlement Service - The Federal Reserve has announced that the Federal Reserve Banks will develop a new real-time gross settlement service with integrated clearing...more
On August 5, the Federal Reserve Board announced that the Federal Reserve Banks will develop a new round-the-clock real-time payment and settlement service, called the FedNow? Service, to support faster payments in the United...more
The Federal Reserve is finally stepping into the real-time payments arena. On August 5, 2019, the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System (the Fed) announced that it plans to roll out a real-time payment and...more
On August 5, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it will develop a new 24x7x365 real-time payment and settlement service to support faster payments in the United States. In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas...more
After six years of deliberation, the Federal Reserve announced on Monday that it will develop a new interbank real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. The Fed expects the system, called FedNow, to be operational in 2023 or...more
On March 28, 2019, the Supervisory Board of The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. (“TCH”) released its “Business Principles for the RTP® Network” (the “Principles”) outlining the operation of TCH’s RTP® Network (the...more
Agencies Issue Joint Statement on BSA/AML Resource Sharing Arrangements - The federal banking agencies, along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) and the NCUA, have...more
During a speech at the Fed Payments Improvement Community Forum, which was sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard discussed payments, the role of the Federal Reserve in...more
Vice Chairman for Supervision of the US Federal Reserve Board Randal Quarles provided remarks at the 2017 Financial Stability and Fintech Conference regarding innovation in the payments system. Vice Chairman Quarles noted...more
On November 30, 2017, Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles delivered remarks at the 2017 Financial Stability and Fintech Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Office...more
In early September 2017, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) published, Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System: Federal Reserve Next Steps in the Payments Improvement Journey, a...more
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve issued a paper entitled “Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System: Federal Reserve Next Steps in the Payments Improvement Journey”. The paper is intended to provide payment...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently issued a series of Consumer Protection Principles to be considered as new, faster payment systems are being developed. The Rapidly Changing Regulatory Landscape for Faster...more
On May 19, NACHA adopted a rule enabling the same-day processing and settlement of most types of ACH payments (same-day rule). In 2012, NACHA had proposed an Expedited Processing and Settlement (EPS) rule providing for a...more
On January 26, 2015 the Federal Reserve issued a multi-faceted plan for collaborating with payment system stakeholders, including large and small businesses, emerging payments firms, card networks, payment processors,...more
In This Issue: - Beltway Report - Bureau Report - Mobile & Emerging Payments Report - Mortgage & Fair Lending Report - Operations Report - Preemption Report - Privacy Report ...more