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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
President Donald J. Trump has signed into law the GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025 or the GENIUS Act of 2025), establishing the first comprehensive federal framework for...more
On July 16, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the federal banking agencies) jointly published a proposed rule...more
When crafting an entry into the U.S. markets, U.K. and European financial institutions need to carefully plan an appropriate strategy. Sebastian Barling, host of “The Capital Ratio” is joined by financial institutions...more
The independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Federal Reserve System (FRS) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is investigating the bureau’s workforce reductions and its canceled contracts, according...more
The Federal Reserve Board has announced that it will eliminate reputational risk as a component of examination programs in its supervision of banks. ...more
On June 6, the OIG for the Fed and the CFPB responded to requests from Sens. Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for a review of recent workforce reductions and contract cancellations at the CFPB. The OIG confirmed it...more
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
The Senate passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support, marking a significant step forward in advancing stablecoin legislation. Legislative action on stablecoins will now move to the House of Representatives. The House...more
Ever since the 1995 CRA rule was published bank regulators have mandated certain “community” and “market” benchmarks as the basis for rating bank performance under the CRA regulations. Most of that data is in the public...more
On June 6, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee released its proposed amendment to H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which included a proposed reduction in the amount of funds the CFPB can annually...more
On June 9, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and other Democratic senators sent a letter to Sen. Tim Scott, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, insisting the Committee to hold a markup on...more
On June 6, the Fed appointed Michael E. Horowitz to lead the OIG for the Fed effective June 30. By statute, the Fed’s OIG also serves as Inspector General for the CFPB. The OIG’s mandate includes making recommendations to...more
The Senate Banking, Housing and Affairs Committee (Banking Committee) would eliminate the CFPB’s current funding source, as part of Committee’s Republican version of its part of the massive budget reconciliation bill,...more
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an extensive budget reconciliation bill that would reduce the CFPB budget by 70 percent. In a 215-214 vote along party lines, the budget cut first approved by the House Committee...more
We are pleased to share with you our latest publication, “Navigating Change: First 100 Days under the Trump Administration,” authored by our Digital Assets + Blockchain team. This retrospective examines the pivotal...more
FRB eases crypto restrictions on supervised entities in alignment with the new administration’s support for the digital asset industry....more
While the House and Senate were out of session for the last two weeks, federal financial regulators and legislators took a wide range of actions impacting the future of digital asset policy. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott...more
On March 31, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency withdrew its participation in the interagency principles for climate-related financial risk management for large financial institutions (the “Climate...more
On March 28, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (together, the federal banking agencies) announced their intent to rescind the...more
On March 12, it was reported that President Trump will nominate Fed Governor Michelle Bowman as the central bank’s next vice chair for supervision, filling the position previously held by Michael Barr who resigned earlier...more
The Klaros Group’s Michele Alt joins Orrick partners Jerry Buckley, Caroline Stapleton and Walt Zalenski to explore actions needed to facilitate new bank formations, which have slowed to trickle in recent years. The...more
On March 3, it was reported that former Fed Vice Chair for Supervision, Michael Barr, stepped down from the Fed’s Committee on Supervision and Regulation, leaving the supervision panel without a chair. This leaves Fed Vice...more
Federal Financial Regulators Extend Deadline for RFI on AI - On May 17, 2021, five financial regulatory agencies announced a deadline extension for the ongoing comment period on financial institutions’ use of AI from June...more
On January 30, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Fed”), the Federal Deposit...more
A volatile August on Wall Street has insiders asking whether we should be taking our cues from 1998 or 2007. With that in mind, our financial term of the week is “countercyclical capital buffer,” a wonkish special for you...more