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On September 17, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proposed a new rule that would significantly impact the risk management and oversight requirements for bank-fintech arrangements. This proposal comes in...more
The FDIC has issued a proposed rule that would apply to practically all bank-fintech arrangements that use custodial deposit accounts to provide customers with transactional features (also called "FBO" accounts for short)....more
Becoming or owning an industrial loan company (or ILC)—the elusive "nonbank bank" option, as Congress coined the term in 1987— still has an allure for financial services providers that want to (1) lend on a national scale...more
In late July 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) board of directors proposed a rule that would revise its standards on banks accepting brokered deposits. The proposed rule would expand the definition of...more
CFPB Issues Filing Instructions Guide for Small Business Lending Data - The CFPB has published instructions for banks and other covered financial institutions to submit small business lending data that is required to be...more
“In the worst case, these [newly designated brokered deposits] will have to get offloaded in a way that potentially puts those banks at even greater liquidity risk, especially to the extent that they have a higher...more
On July 30, 2024, the FDIC proposed substantive changes to the 2020 Brokered Deposit Rule (2020 Rule) that, if finalized, could meaningfully impact a wide group of bank and nonbank stakeholders who rely on the current rule’s...more
On July 19, 2024, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the National Credit Union Administration...more
The FDIC board on July 30 approved a notice of proposed rulemaking intended to strengthen the prudential protections of the agency’s safety and soundness rule for brokered deposits (12 CFR 337.6)....more
Proposed rules would reduce funding recipients' burdens by reducing LOC valuation requirements and expanding the number of eligible banks - On June 7, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") issued a Notice of...more
The FDIC recently finalized its resolution planning rule for large banks, which becomes effective October 1, 2024. Resolution plans, or "living wills," are plans to wind down operations in the event of bank failures. The...more
Three federal regulators have reproposed rules that implement the requirements for bank incentive compensation programs that were included in the Dodd-Frank legislation 14 years ago. Section 956 of Dodd-Frank required the...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently announced proposals to update their approaches to evaluating bank mergers and other business combinations under the Bank Merger...more
On April 10, the OCC announced a notice published in the Federal Register extending the comment period for the OCC’s proposed rule on bank mergers. The NPRM titled, “Business Combinations under the Bank Merger Act,” was...more
On March 21, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) approved a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on its proposal to revise its current Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions. Among the...more
The term “junk fee” is not defined under federal law, but the CFPB has focused on factors such as whether the fee would be unexpected to or take advantage of a reasonable consumer, the amount of the fee compared to the cost...more
In a recent speech at the Financial Data Exchange Global Summit, Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), discussed the current state of open banking in the United States and emphasized the...more
After targeting credit card late fees in its proposed rule, the CFPB has set its sights on further attacking credit card pricing through interest rates. The CFPB published a blog late last month stating that credit card...more
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) seeking to “increase the transparency of the standards that apply to the agency’s review of business combinations involving...more
On February 16, the Chair for the House Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters (D-CA), and 41 other House Democrats sent a letter to the FDIC, Fed, and OCC regarding the Basel III Endgame and the proposed rule which...more
On January 24, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) launched the latest salvo in its war against so-called “junk fees” by issuing a proposed rule that would prohibit financial institutions from charging...more
In a new data spotlight issued last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) found that interest rates charged on credit cards issued by large banks are higher than interest rates charged on credit cards issued...more
The Situation: On January 29, 2024, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") requested comment on a proposed rule updating its bank merger rules and incorporating a policy statement (the "Proposal") on agency...more
On January 29, the OCC announced a proposed rule for bank merger approvals under the Bank Merger Act (BMA). The OCC proposed changes to 12 CFR 5.33 to reflect its view that a business combination is a significant corporate...more
On January 29, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding its review of business combinations under the Bank Merger Act (BMA). Specifically, the OCC proposed: (i)...more