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
On July 10, 2025, the federal banking agencies published a proposed rule to change the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (eSLR) for U.S. global systemically important bank holding companies (GSIBs) and their subsidiary...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 U.S. Senate passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act or GENIUS Act (S.1582) (the Act) in a 68-30 bipartisan vote on June 17, 2025. The GENIUS Act would provide a clear regulatory...more
On an aggregate basis, banking industry net revenue improved in Q1 despite flattish NIM on near-record non-interest income and expense improvements....more
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) has cemented its role as a global financial watchdog, using its influence to safeguard the integrity of the U.S. dollar and the broader international financial system. Recent...more
Several significant regulatory and policy developments took place this week in Washington. The Senate banking committee advanced several key nominations, including Michelle Bowman to serve as vice chair for supervision at the...more
April 16, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for February 2025. The next release, which will report on data for March 2025, is scheduled for May 16, 2025....more
April 9, 2025- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence held a hearing entitled “American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets...more
March 26, 2025 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions held a hearing entitled “A New Era for the CFPB: Balancing Power and Reprioritizing Consumer Protections.”...more
March 13, 2025- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs voted to advance the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, legislation that establishes a regulatory...more
February 27, 2025 - FinCEN announced that it will not issue fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
Last week, both chambers of Congress presented drafts of legislation intent on regulating payment stablecoins. The GENIUS Act, presented by Sens. Tim Scott, Bill Hagerty, Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand, arrived on...more
February 11, 2025- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.” The Committee heard testimony from the Honorable Jerome H....more
February 10, 2025 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and other...more
We previously reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent was named as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and he subsequently ordered the CFPB staff to halt several activities. However, the...more
February 5, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board released the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test, which helps ensure that large banks can lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession....more
January 28, 2025- Scott Bessent was sworn in as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury by Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on January 28, 2025. January 29, 2025- The Securities and Exchange Commission, together...more
January 16, 2025- The U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing on the nomination of Mr. Eric Scott Turner, to be Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development....more
January 15, 2025 - Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) released the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs legislative and oversight priorities for the 119th Congress....more
CFPB Imposes $5 Cap on Overdraft Fees Charged by Large Banks - The CFPB has adopted a final rule capping overdraft fees at $5 for banks and other depository institutions with more than $10 billion in assets (covered...more
December 27, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations regarding reporting requirements for trading front-end service providers interacting directly with...more
December 23, 2024- In view of the evolving legal landscape, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System announced it will soon seek public comment on significant changes to improve the transparency of its bank...more
December 4, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance.”...more
Federal Reserve Governor Michelle W. Bowman recently delivered insightful remarks at the 27th Annual Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, emphasizing the transformative potential of artificial...more
November 25, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a new report summarizing data from the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) for the first two years of the program, from the first transaction on...more