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 27, 2025, the Federal Reserve approved a proposal to recalibrate a key capital requirement applicable to the largest U.S. banking organizations (known as global systemically important banks (GSIBs)). - The proposal...more
The proposal aims to free up large bank balance sheets and promote US Treasury market intermediation, which the current regulations may hinder....more
Last week, the US federal banking regulators proposed changes to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (“eSLR”) requirement for US global systemically important bank holding companies (“US GSIBs”) (the “Proposal”)....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
Following the 2023 bank failures, the federal banking regulators (the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC) have signaled that they are seeking to develop more stringent bank regulatory requirements for larger banking...more
Federal Reserve Policy Aims to Level the Playing Field for Insured and Uninsured Banks: The Federal Reserve has issued a policy statement clarifying that uninsured state member banks will be subject to the same limitations...more
As we mentioned briefly in our newsletter last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, “The Agencies”)...more
Regulators took a first step toward modernizing CRA regulations with a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The proposed rule would add more standardized metrics for regulators’ CRA examinations and more clearly delineate...more
On May 5, 2022, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively the agencies) issued a joint notice of proposed...more