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
The Federal Reserve has announced that the agency will no longer assess reputational risk when examining banks’ risk management processes. According to the June 23 announcement, the Federal Reserve has already begun reviewing...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
April 1, 2025 - The Conference of State Bank Supervisors sent a letter to House Financial Services Committee leadership that raised concerns about stablecoin legislation. April 1, 2025 - Chairman French Hill (AR-02) and...more
March 6, 2025- U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led legislation that would eliminate the ability for federal regulators to use reputational risk as a component of supervision....more
February 6, 2025- Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Philip N. Jefferson gave a speech entitled, “Do Non-inflationary Economic Expansions Promote Shared Prosperity? Evidence from the U.S. Labor Market,” at Swarthmore...more
Financial services encompass a wide range of services offered by the nation’s financial institutions, including banking, mortgage, investment, and credit services. The next administration and Congress’s financial services...more
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled “Regulatory Recipe for Economic Uncertainty: The Endless Basel Endgame and an Onslaught of...more
OCC Requests Public Comments on Proposed Bank Merger Policy Statement and Rules The OCC has proposed a new policy to increase the transparency of the standards that the agency applies to review business combinations involving...more
January 18, 2024- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "National Security Challenges: Outpacing China in Emerging Technology."...more
January 3, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting held December 12-13, 2023. January 3, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services announced the...more
September 19, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the SEC's Division of Investment Management."...more
September 29, 2022- The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a final rule establishing a beneficial ownership information reporting requirement, pursuant to the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act....more
July 15, 2022- U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), along with 44 senators, today...more
In this Issue. The federal bank regulatory agencies announced that the temporary change to the supplementary leverage ratio for depository institutions will expire as scheduled on March 31, 2021; the Small Business...more
In this Issue. The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it was opening the application process for the Emergency Capital Investment Program, a new program designed to provide long-term, low-cost equity and...more
In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted broad exempt offering reforms; the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule, with significant revisions from the original proposal, on ESG investments; the...more
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced on May 19, 2020, before a Senate Committee that the Main Street Lending Program (Program) is anticipated to be launched around the end of May. Prospective borrowers should be...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new rule that would establish a revised framework for the fair value determination for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and have...more
In this Issue: Senate Votes to Expand Paycheck Protection Program; FHFA (Finally) Addresses Liquidity Concerns for Mortgage Servicers. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation providing $484 billion in...more
Priming the Pump. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), consistent with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), took additional...more
On March 27, 2020, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law the $2.2 trillion "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act" (CARES Act) legislation aimed to provide economic relief from coronavirus...more
A Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) is a privately owned and operated company that makes long-term investments in American small businesses and is licensed by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA)....more
On Thursday, December 12, 2019, the OCC and the FDIC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) in an effort to modernize the regulatory framework behind the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Last autumn, renewed...more
Yesterday, I wrote about legislation that would authorize local governments to form their own local or regional public banks. Senator Ben Hueso has a somewhat different idea. He has introduced a bill, SB 528, that would...more
On March 26, 2018, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal K. Quarles provided some insights on fintech developments in a speech he gave entitled “The Roles of Consumer Protection and Small Business Access to...more