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Daily Compliance News: August 22, 2025, The WADA Returns Edition
Enhancing Card Partnerships and Compliance: A Conversation With Matthew Goldman — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
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Compliance Tip of the Day: Citibank and Continuous Monitoring
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
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Daily Compliance News: July 15, 2025, The Fighting Workplace Bullying Edition
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#Risk New York Speaker Series – Exploring Future Regulatory Trends and Compliance Strategies with Rory McGrath
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Banking on Lending Models — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Great Women in Compliance: GWIC X EC Q2 2025 - Exploring Compliance Innovations
2023 CRA Rule Repeal: Lessons to be Learned
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has proposed significant revisions to its application procedures for banks seeking to establish a branch or relocate a main office or branch, marking a major shift in...more
On August 6, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee sent a letter to the Fed’s Vice Chair for Supervision, Michelle Bowman, as well as Comptroller Jonathan Gould, and the FDIC’s Acting Chairman Travis Hill, urging them to address...more
On Thursday, August 7, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO), “Guaranteeing Fair Banking Access for All Americans,” aimed at combatting “politicized or unlawful debanking.” Debanking generally refers to...more
Over the past few years, one of the more noteworthy types of new financial services rules at the state level has been the so-called fair access to banking law. Concerns about ideological debanking have gained political...more
President Trump has issued an Executive Order directing banking agencies to adopt policies to ensure that financial institutions do not use reputational risk as a basis for restricting access to banking services—a process...more
On August 7, President Donald Trump signed the “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” executive order (EO) directing federal banking regulators to investigate financial institutions that have restricted access to...more
There has been a flurry of activity in Congress and the White House to liberalize and encourage the development of cryptocurrency as a payment method, including creating a legal regime for depository and non-depository...more
Last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (collectively, “the Agencies”) issued a proposed rulemaking to both...more
In a significant shift, each of the country's three federal bank regulatory agencies have announced they will no longer consider reputational risk as a stand-alone supervisory category. Originally published in Law360 -...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) has formally revised its fair lending examination procedures, announcing in Bulletin 2025-16, issued on July 14, 2025, that it has eliminated all references to disparate...more
On July 14, the OCC announced it has removed the references to disparate impact liability from the “Fair Lending” booklet of the Comptroller’s Handbook and has started removing references in other issuances. The OCC has also...more
On Thursday, July 10, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jonathan Gould to serve as the next Comptroller of the Currency in a 50–45 vote. Gould will succeed Acting Comptroller Rodney Hood, who offered his congratulations and...more
Key Points - On June 27, 2025, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) exempted supervised banks and credit...more
On June 27, the OCC, the Fed, and the FDIC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio standards for U.S. global systemically important banks (GSIBs) and their subsidiaries. The...more
On June 27, the OCC, FDIC and NCUA, with the concurrence of FinCEN, granted an exemption allowing banks to use a third party source to obtain customer tax identification numbers (TIN) for customers before opening an account....more
Much attention has been paid to the regulatory and customer protection provisions of the proposed Guiding and Establishing National Innovation of US Stablecoins Act, the so-called GENIUS Act, S. 1582 (the proposed Act)....more
Banks and credit unions may now rely on third parties to provide a consumer’s Social Security or Taxpayer Identification Number, according to an order issued by the FDIC, OCC and the NCUA with the consent of the Financial...more
On June 23, the Fed announced it will no longer include reputational risk as a component of its examination programs in its supervision of banks. This move will align the Fed with the OCC, which made a similar announcement in...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 June 23, the Federal Reserve Board announced that reputational risk will no longer be a component of its bank-examination program. The same day, the Board released a revised edition of its Guidelines for Rating Risk...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
In response to a request from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (“CSBS”), Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Rodney E. Hood, decisively defended OCC regulations regarding the ability of national banks and Federal...more
The federal banking agencies have withdrawn previously issued guidance related to banks’ crypto activities, marking a shift in regulatory posture toward digital asset engagement. On April 25, the Federal Reserve Board...more
On April 24, the Federal Reserve withdrew its prior guidance for banks related to their crypto-asset and dollar token activities and also announced related changes to its expectations for these activities....more
On May 20, federal merger policy took a sharp turn as the FDIC voted to rescind its 2024 merger guidelines, and the U.S. House passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal the OCC’s 2024 merger rule....more