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DOJ announces its withdrawal from the 1995 Bank Merger Guidelines

On September 17, the DOJ announced its withdrawal from the 1995 Bank Merger Guidelines, stating the 2023 Merger Guidelines will be the only authoritative statement across all industries. This decision followed collaboration...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Basel III Endgame: Will Banks Have to Increase Their Capital Requirements?

On Tuesday, September 10, the Federal Reserve announced a reproposal of the much discussed and awaited Basel III Endgame. However, before we dive into the reproposal, it is important to take a step back and look at how we got...more

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Fed releases final capital requirements for all large banks

On August 28, the Fed released its final capital requirements for large bank holding companies. As previously covered by InfoBytes, the Fed derived these requirements from stress test results showing that large banks had...more

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Daily Financial Regulation Update -- Wednesday August 14

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August 13, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog post entitled, “When Are Central Bank Reserves Ample?” August 13, 2024 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...more

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FDIC Proposes Amendments to Its Change in Bank Control Act Regulations

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The proposal would establish stricter oversight of certain transactions and responds to concerns that large asset managers may be exerting influence on FDIC-supervised institutions. On July 30, 2024, the Board of...more

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Why the Capital One-Discover Merger Makes Sense

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When federal agencies review bank mergers, the competition issues typically relate to the number and location of physical branches and the extent of any overlap in the areas served. By contrast, the proposed $35 billion...more

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Bank Regulators Issue Statement on Third-Party Relationships with Financial Institutions and Publish Request for Information on...

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The federal banking regulators (The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) issued on July 25 a lengthy joint statement...more

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Fed Cracks Down on Utah Bank for Alleged Compliance Failures with $44 Million Fine

On a July 19, the Federal Reserve Board announced it has issued a consent order against a Utah-based bank and its parent company for engaging in unfair and deceptive acts and practices in violation of Section 5(a)(1) of the...more

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Federal Banking Agencies Reiterate Guidance on Managing Risks Posed By Fintech Partnerships and Other Third Party Relationships

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Last week, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (collectively, the agencies) issued a joint statement highlighting...more

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RegFi Episode 40: Financial Innovation and Supervision

RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton welcome podcast guest Tracy Basinger, former head of supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a senior advisor at the Klaros Group. Tracy brings a unique...more

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Federal Reserve Board Issues Cease and Desist Order Against Banking-As-A-Service Provider

On June 14, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) released a cease and desist order against an Arkansas-based banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider for compliance and risk management failures. As part of the order, the bank is...more

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The U.S. Basel III Endgame Proposal: Update and Thoughts

On September 18, 2023, the U.S. Basel III Endgame proposal was published in the Federal Register. The comment period ended on January 16, 2024, with the banking regulators (the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC) having...more

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A reply to Professor Sovern’s arguments as to why the Fed, notwithstanding its losses, can still lawfully fund the CFPB

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Although neither the CFPB, the Federal Reserve Board, nor the Treasury has responded to Professor Emeritus Hal Scott’s op-ed on May 20 in the Wall Street Journal, my interview with Professor Scott on our Consumer Finance...more

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Trends in a “Pray and Delay” Economy

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2023 and the start of 2024 presented challenging economic conditions to the market, with debt costs at a historic high.  Following a series of increases over the last two years, the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate is...more

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Crystal Clear: New Guide on Third-Party Risk Management for Community Banks - and Others

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It is no secret that the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the OCC have zeroed in on banks' use of third parties for products, services, and other operations, the risks those arrangements may pose, and banks' responsibility to...more

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Fed, OCC, and FDIC release third-party risk management report for community banks

On May 3, the Fed, OCC, and FDIC (the regulators) released a report to help community banks assess their third-party relationship risk exposure. The report discusses key considerations in three areas: risk management,...more

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Federal Banking Agencies Issue Guide to Third-Party Risk Management Practices for Community Banks

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On May 3, 2024, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) jointly released the...more

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Districts of Wyoming and Idaho Affirm Broad Fed Powers over Master Accounts

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Components of the U.S. Federal Reserve System recently prevailed in two lawsuits in which both plaintiffs – Custodia Bank and PayServices Bank – alleged the defendants were required to grant the plaintiffs’ master account...more

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Federal Reserve Wins Two Master Account Lawsuits

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At the end of March, components of the US Federal Reserve System (“FRS” or the “Fed”) prevailed in two lawsuits brought by depository institutions seeking master accounts.1 These decisions have significant implications for...more

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Fed’s Bowman speaks on bank liquidity a year after banking crises

On April 3, Fed member Michelle Bowman delivered a speech on “Bank Liquidity, Regulation, and the Fed’s Role as Lender of Last Resort.” Her speech highlighted three points: first, she discussed how the Fed supported liquidity...more

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Persisting Regulatory Uncertainty: Federal Regulators Delay New Community Lending Rules

On March 21, the FDIC, Fed, and OCC jointly issued an interim final rule to extend the applicability date of certain provisions of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) final rule and requested comments on the extension. The...more

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FDIC Proposes Increased Scrutiny of Bank Mergers

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Today, a divided Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Board of Directors issued a proposed Statement of Policy (SOP) on bank merger transactions that would create a combined bank with more than $100 billion in...more

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Agencies issue 2023 Shared National Credit Program Report

On February 16, the FDIC, Fed, and OCC issued the 2023 Shared National Credit (SNC) Report, which found that while large, syndicated bank loans generally have moderate credit quality, there appears to be a trend of declining...more

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Fed finds CEO engaged in crypto “pig butchering” scam which led to bank failure

On February 7, the Federal Reserve issued an evaluation report, as required by the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (where a loss to the deposit insurance fund is considered material), on a recently failed bank; the Fed...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

To Approve a Bank Merger or Not: That Is the Question!

On January 29, 2024, the OCC issued a proposed policy statement[1] describing the general principles it uses to evaluate applications for approval of transactions under the Bank Merger Act (“BMA”), principally bank mergers,...more

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