Building Your Future at Holland & Knight: Willie Phillips' Transition from Public Sector to Partner
Hill Country Authors – Exploring the Challenges of a Green Transition with Tom Ortiz
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Can Food Really Be Medicine? Transforming Health Care One Bite at a Time – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
NLRB Quorum Limbo, DOL Deregulation Push, Coldplay Concert Exposes Workplace Romance - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Innovation in Compliance: Allison Lagosh on Proactive Compliance Planning for Regulatory Changes
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: NLRB Does a U-Turn on Make-Whole Settlement Remedies, Part II
Great Women in Compliance: GWIC X EC Q2 2025 - Exploring Compliance Innovations
Daily Compliance News: June 25, 2025, The PCAOB Elimination Hits Roadblock Edition
Legal Shifts in 2025 Put Employer Non-Compete Strategies at Risk - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Doc Fees Decoded: The Price of Paperwork in Auto Sales — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — The Consumer Finance Podcast
2023 CRA Rule Repeal: Lessons to be Learned
All Things Investigations: Navigating New DOJ Directives - Declinations, Cooperation, and Whistleblower Programs with Mike DeBernardis and Katherine Taylor
Regulatory Rollback: Inside the CFPB’s FCRA Guidance Withdrawal — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
DOL Restructures: OFCCP on the Chopping Block as Opinion Letters Expand - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published discussion paper DP1/25 inviting views on potential reforms to the internal ratings based (IRB) approach to credit risk for residential mortgage exposures. The PRA...more
I am joining the hordes occupying the chatter-sphere to opine about what the GSEs should look like, post conservatorship. Having reviewed loads of opinions about the future of the Twins, I’m pretty sure the bar on looking...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement PS25/11, accompanied by a press release, finalising the first set of reforms under the Mortgage Rule Review (MRR). These changes aim to simplify...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement confirming amendments to the large exposures framework in respect of exposures arising from mortgage lending, exposures to the UK FSCS,...more
On June 13, both houses of New York's legislature passed a bill, S1163, that prohibits "rent minimums" in real estate secured loan documents....more
On July 10, HUD and the OMB announced two changes regarding federal housing policies: first, they terminated several FHA mortgagee letters regarding appraisals; and they disbanded the Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity...more
Following the FCA’s May 2025 ‘first steps’ consultation on proposals to simplify its mortgage framework via a Mortgage Rule Review (MRR), it has now published a discussion paper on the future of the mortgage market. The...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published discussion paper DP25/2 (DP) accompanied by an updated webpage and press release, on the future of the UK mortgage market, as part of its ongoing mortgage rule review....more
On May 9, Governor Brian Kemp signed House Bill 586, revising the definition of “long-term note[s] secured by real estate” that are subject to the intangible recording tax. Under current law, long-term notes are considered...more
On June 24, the governor of Rhode Island signed into law H 5811 to amend the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2009. The amendment changes the law to prohibit an individual who is licensed as both a...more
On March 13, New York State introduced proposed legislation titled the Fostering Affordability and Integrity Through Reasonable Business Practices Act (FAIR Act). The proposed legislation seeks to broaden the scope of...more
On May 14, 2025, Governor Brian Kemp signed Georgia House Bill 15 into law. House Bill 15, which will take effect on July 1, 2025, will implement several major changes to Georgia’s residential mortgage licensing law, the...more
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) submitted several regulatory proposals to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Among the rules under consideration are those related to...more
In a sweeping announcement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) revoked nearly 70 interpretive rules, advisory opinions, and guidance documents on May 12, 2025. The Federal Register Notice adds to the pullback on...more
Fannie Mae (1938) and Freddie Mac (1970) were created with the end goal of promoting homeownership across the United States. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both government-sponsored entities (“GSEs”), are publicly traded and...more
Now that the Trump Administration has announced its intention to repeal the 2023 CRA rule many bankers are way too eager to move on and forget about the soon-to-be-repealed rule. It was unbelievably complex, confusing and...more
What Happened? As we previously advised you, in 2024, the Maryland Appellate Court in Estate of H. Gregory Brown v. Carrie M. Ward, et al., No. 1009, (App. Ct. Sept. Term 2023), ruled that a statutory trust that held a...more
The New York Court of Appeals has finally agreed to consider whether retroactive application of the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (“FAPA”) (or sections of it) violates the New York Constitution. Over the last two years,...more
The CFPB continues on its path to rescind what it considers to be unnecessary regulatory guidance, with two additional proposals recently published. First, the agency published an interim final rule on May 16, 2025, to...more
On May 16, the CFPB published a Federal Register notice withdrawing its COVID-19-era mortgage servicing protections for borrowers. The CFPB identified two reasons for rescinding this measure: first, the rule was intended to...more
The legal and constitutional implications of New York’s Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA) are back in the spotlight as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit again turns to the New York Court of Appeals for...more
President Trump signed Executive Order 14281, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy on April 23, 2025”. The EO proclaims a policy goal of eliminating “the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the...more
As we reported previously, the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation (“OFR”) issued emergency regulations this past January which indicated that passive trusts holding residential mortgage loans, even those used as part of...more
Contending that policies implemented by guidance represent an unfair regulatory burden and might be contrary to federal law, the CFPB is rescinding 67 guidance documents issued since the bureau began operating in 2011....more
On May 15, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed an interim final rule in the Federal Register that will rescind its prior 2021 COVID-19 mortgage servicing final rule. The interim final rule is set for...more