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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Summer’s Over and the Regulations Keep Coming, September 2025 - Cadwalader Capital Corner: Federal Reserve Announces Individual...

On August 29, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) announced the individual capital requirements for all large banks, effective on October 1. This announcement follows the June announcement on the results of the supervisory...more

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HMT Publishes Revised MoU on Financial Crisis Management

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HM Treasury (HMT) has published a revised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bank of England (BoE) and UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on financial crisis management, replacing the previous version from...more

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To Carry Out EO, SBA Orders Its Lenders to Review and End Debanking Practices

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On August 26, the US Small Business Administration (SBA) instructed its network of more than 5,000 lenders to “cease any politicized or unlawful debanking actions,” in direct response to President Donald Trump’s recent...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FDIC Proposes Adding Flexibility to Official Sign and Advertising Requirements

On August 21, 2025, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published a proposed rule with several key changes to its FDIC Official Sign and Advertising Rule, only two years after it adopted requirements that were...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

RegFi Episode 71: GENIUS Act: Establishing a Federal Regulatory Framework for Stablecoins

Mona Elliot and Sam Canavos of Patomak Global Partners join RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk to discuss the newly enacted GENIUS Act, its goals and implications for the stablecoin market. The conversation...more

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Regulatory Monitoring: EU version - August 2025

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Our monthly regulatory newsletter monitors all relevant developments regarding European regulatory law in English language. ECB: Opinion on the supervisory independence of Lietuvos bankas and the prevention of conflicts of...more

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Regulatory Monitoring - August 2025

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Our monthly regulatory newsletter monitors all relevant developments regarding German and European regulatory law in English language. BMF: Draft bill for the Banking Directive Implementation and Bureaucracy Relief Act...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SBA directs financial institutions to end, correct debanking actions

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Citing President Trump’s Executive Order, the SBA has sent letters to its network of more than 5,000 lenders instructing them to end what the Trump Administration said is politicized or unlawful debanking....more

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FDIC Proposes Greater Flexibility for Digital and ATM Signage Requirements

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On August 19, 2025, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update regulations on how banks display the FDIC official digital sign and related...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Open Call: CFPB Seeks Comments on New Section 1033 Open Banking Rule

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The first step in the future of open banking under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank" or the "Act") is here: in a notice posted August 22, 2025 (the "Notice"), the Consumer Financial...more

Woods Rogers

“Fair Banking” Executive Order Directs Federal Regulators to Address Debanking

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President Trump’s executive order, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” asserts that financial institutions have denied or terminated financial services to “persons participating in activities or causes commonly...more

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EBA Publishes Final RTS for Off-balance Conversion Factors Under CRR

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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) concerning the allocation of off-balance sheet items and the specification of factors that may constrain institutions'...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FDIC Proposes Overhaul of Branch Application Rules

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

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ECB Issues Opinion On Lithuania's CRD VI Transposition Into National Law

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The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its opinion adopted on 14 August in response to a request from Lithuania's Minister of Finance. The opinion concerns proposed amendments to the Law on Lietuvos bankas (the draft...more

Phelps Dunbar

Is the GENIUS Act Smart for Community Banks?

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The GENIUS Act, passed in July, is the first comprehensive federal framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. On the surface, it promises clarity and an opportunity for community banks to participate in the...more

Mayer Brown

Asset-Level Eligibility Series: Margin Stock

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This Legal Update explores why, in order for an underlying loan to be included in a warehouse facility’s borrowing base, the underlying loan cannot be margin stock....more

A&O Shearman

Amending Draft EU ITS on Benchmarking of Internal Models

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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final draft implementing technical standards (ITS), amending the Implementing Regulation on the benchmarking of credit and market risk for the 2026 exercise. The EBA...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Payments Canada Publishes RTR Participation Guide for Payment Service Providers

On August 21, 2025, Payments Canada published its RTR Participation Guide for Payment Service Providers (Guide), clarifying how payment service providers (PSPs) can become participants in Canada’s new real-time payments...more

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ECB Decision on Safeguards in Relation to Access by CCPS to Eurosystem Overnight Credit in TARGET

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Decision 2025/1734 of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 31 July on safeguards in relation to access by central counterparties (CCPs) to Eurosystem overnight credit in TARGET, has been published in the Official Journal. Under...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

OCC releases updated Bank Accounting Advisory Series

On August 15, the OCC released its annual update to the Bank Accounting Advisory Series (BAAS). The BAAS is an ongoing series that addresses a range of accounting topics relevant to national banks and federal savings...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FDIC proposes rule to update its digital signage requirements

On August 19, the FDIC announced that its board approved a proposed rule to amend signage requirements for banks’ digital deposit channels and ATMs. The proposal aims to reduce implementation issues, reduce burden, and...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Fed withdraws its notice on supervising “novel activities”

On August 15, the Fed announced it withdrew its bank supervision program related to the Fed’s initiatives on “novel activities.” The Fed will return to monitoring banks’ novel activities through the normal supervisory...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

U.S. Congress enacts stablecoin regulatory act, now law

On July 18, the U.S. Congress enacted the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act,” or the “GENIUS Act,” to regulate the issuance and treatment of payment stablecoins, which are digital assets...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Banking and Digital Assets: Key Takeaways from the President’s Working Group Report

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On July 30, 2025, the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets (PWG) released “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” a comprehensive digital asset report (Report) mandated by President...more

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SRB Operational Guidance on Separability and Transferability for Transfer Tools

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The EU Single Resolution Board (SRB) has launched a consultation on its operational guidance for banks on separability and transferability. The SRB has updated its 2021 operational guidance on separability and seeks to align...more

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