In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the November 2023 webinar....more
In an effort to align the permissibility of crypto activities for all member banks of the Federal Reserve System (the "FRS", which includes all national banks and state member banks), the Board of Governors of the Federal...more
On December 23, 2022, President Biden signed the “James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023” which, among many other things, amends Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U.S.C....more
Included in the defense spending bill signed by President Biden in December 2022 is a section with key provisions for financial institutions that will ease restrictions on hiring candidates with criminal records....more
On May 17, 2022, the FDIC board approved a final rule, effective July 5, 2022, addressing false advertising, misuse of the FDIC's name, and misrepresentations about deposit insurance, based on section 18(a)(4) of the Federal...more
A California federal district court judge has rejected challenges to the OCC’s and FDIC’s Madden-fix rules brought in two separate lawsuits by state attorneys general. The OCC rule is codified at 12 C.F.R. Section 7.4001(e)...more
On June 25, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) issued its final rule (the “FDIC Rule”) clarifying that an assignee of a state-chartered bank or insured branch of a foreign bank (a “state bank”) has...more
Is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) moving to work more closely with the state regulators with whom it shares so much prudential authority? So it seems. The FDIC has created a new advisory committee featuring...more
Last week, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) each issued a proposed rule designed to clarify that interest rates that are valid when a loan is made remain...more
Shining the light on previously undisclosed examination practices, federal banking regulators and other entities issued an important joint statement addressing their risk-focused approach to BSA/AML examinations....more
On November 1, 2018, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) issued modifications to its Statement of Policy (“SOP”) for applications made under Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (“FDIA”). The...more
As regulators in Europe and elsewhere have done, U.S. banking regulators have introduced new regulations designed to facilitate the resolution of a global systemically important bank (GSIB)....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 3, 2018, the FDIC published its final rule on modifications to the Statement of Policy for Section 19 in an attempt to reduce the number of low risk criminal offenses that result in preclusion of...more
Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued revised guidance on Community Reinvestment Act ratings; the OCC also released an update to the Bank Accounting Advisory Series; and...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The FDIC is accepting comments until March 9, 2018 on the proposed revisions to the Statement of Policy for Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; the FDIC is seeking, among other things, to...more
According to the final rule recently issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) formalizing the agency’s “heightened expectations” supervisory regime, the largest U.S. federally chartered depository...more