Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Did the Supreme Court Hand the CFPB a Pyrrhic Victory?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Understanding the Federal Reserve Board Proposal to Lower Interchange Fee Cap for Debit Card Transactions
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Community Reinvestment Act Reform: A Close Look at the Final Rule
The Future of Payments: Exploring FedNow With the Payments Professor — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Federal Banking Interagency Final Guidance on Third-Party Relationships - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What is FedNow and its Role in the U.S. Payments System?
Breaking (Down) the Debt Ceiling
Podcast: 2023 Deal Cycle - Considerations for Transactions in Uncertain Economic Times - Diagnosing Health Care
Crypto Year in Review 2022: Federal Reserve and Central Bank Digital Currencies and FDIC/OCC Regulatory Developments - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Is the U.S. Payments System Failing Business and Consumers? A Discussion with Special Guest Dan Awrey, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
DE Under 3: Latest Monthly Jobs Report, Unemployment & the US BLS JOLTS Report
Stablecoin Regulation in an Unstable Time: The Fed and Treasury Address a Stablecoin Regulatory Framework
Congressional and Federal Agency Action Following Executive Order on Digital Assets Policy
The Return of TALF Fund Opportunities Via COVID-19 Relief
Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): Recap and What to Expect in 2014
In Short: The Situation: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the "Agencies") have proposed rules...more
On August 29, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, FBAs) issued requests for...more
On August 29, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (collectively, the agencies) issued a notice of...more
A combination of high debt, low interest rates, and supply and labor shortages has contributed to inflation. Some of this impact is the direct result of the COVID pandemic. COVID has also caused distress in certain vulnerable...more
We have previously written about the possible economic and litigation implications of mushrooming corporate debt. Now, the Federal Reserve has flagged some of those same concerns....more
Below is a broad overview of policies for which President-Elect Biden has indicated support (PDF). It is important to note that, while some of these policies fall under the President's executive power, many will require...more
The Main Street Lending Program, authorized under the CARES Act and Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, is designed to provide financial assistance to small and medium sized businesses. There will be three Main Street...more
Civic unrest in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis is complicating reopening plans for cities and businesses around the country trying to restart after months of coronavirus-related closures....more
As the world grapples with the health threat posed by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the secondary threats of the coronavirus—including economic and financial consequences—have come into clear view....more
The US and China have reportedly reached an initial agreement on the “final terms of a phase one trade deal, moving both countries closer to signing a pact that” the White House originally announced in October and averting...more
Mario Draghi presided over his final ECB meeting yesterday, with the central bank deciding to hold rates steady and let current stimulus measures play out for the time being. His departure (and the arrival of former IMF chief...more
Lots more details on what turned out to be something of a bloodbath for Deutsche Bank employees around the world, with the bank starting to make good yesterday on its plans to cut nearly 18,000 employees worldwide – NYTimes...more
On May 6, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) published its annual Financial Stability Report....more
We were pretty sure that the Fed would keep interest rates steady as it wrapped its Open Market Committee meetings yesterday, and Fed Chair Powell delivered on that expectation. He also admitted that the same lack of...more
In order to comply with European antitrust rulings against it earlier this year, Google announced that for the first time it will begin charging telephone handset manufacturers to install Gmail, Google Maps, and other popular...more
The Small Bank Holding Company ("BHC") Policy Statement ("Policy Statement") was adopted by the Federal Reserve in 1980 to facilitate transfers of small banking organizations, including BHCs formed to assume individuals' bank...more
The Federal Reserve Board’s final rules regarding total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements for global systemically important banks (GSibs) in the US will require levels of capital and other loss-absorbing capacity...more
The U.S. capital markets experienced continued volatility throughout much of 2016, as the bond and equity markets were affected by a series of significant events: the November U.S. presidential election; the June Brexit vote;...more
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted as a measure to promote financial stability and protection for consumers through increased regulation of nearly every aspect of the consumer finance...more
On Friday, October 30, 2015, the Federal Reserve Board (“Board”) reaffirmed its commitment to both the bank holding company model and single point of entry resolution. In a departure from historical views of the purpose and...more
The four federal financial institution regulatory agencies—the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration and the Office of the...more
The FRB, FDIC, OCC and NCUA (collectively, the “Agencies”) jointly issued guidance to financial institutions entitled InterAgency Supervisory Guidance Addressing Certain Issues Related to Troubled Debt Restructurings (the...more
The debt markets have outperformed themselves during 2013, harkening back to the boom years of 2005 through 2007. That is, if you measure performance by the amount of liquidity in the market. In the context of an...more
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”) in December 2012 issued a proposed rule under the Dodd-Frank Act (“DFA”) for the enhanced supervision of foreign banking organizations (“FBOs”) and any foreign...more