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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
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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
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
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
December 22, 2023- The U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs issued a memo on the Committee's accomplishments of the past year, as well as priorities for the final year of the 118th Congress....more
September 20, 2023- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg addressed The Exchequer Club in Washington, DC on the financial stability risks of nonbank financial institutions....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
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
June 27, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office Economic Policy released an analysis of the surge in construction spending for manufacturing in the United States....more
The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing on the following nominations: The Honorable Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, to be a Member and Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of...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
Can you say 0 to 60? Not cars, but pretty much everything to do with financial services. A new year, a new administration, and new challenges for providers. Prior CFPB Director Kraninger is long gone. Acting Director Uejio...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
Big Friday win for Apple in its ongoing battle with Epic Games, as N.D. Cal. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Cook & Co. didn’t “need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App Store,” a blow to...more
SEC Charges Trust Company with Operating Unregistered Investment Companies and Failing to Register Securities Offerings. On September 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had settled charges with...more
In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to update and expand the statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants must provide to investors for the first time in 30...more
Rising infection rates around the U.S. and the globe are worrying markets, as fear of a second wave of cases linked with the reopening of the economy freaks out traders....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
Paycheck Protection Problems. In last week’s Roundup, we discussed the initial guidance issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) on the implementation of the...more
On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or CARES Act (the “Act”). Subtitle A of Title IV of the Act, the “Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act of 2020, creates...more