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
On September 4, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) released enforcement actions against a Texas-based bank, addressing regulatory violations and compliance lapses. The Fed, joined by the Texas Department of Banking (TDB),...more
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
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the May 2024 webinar....more
Regulators with the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) have fined JP Morgan Chase & Co. a combined total of $348.2 million over the bank’s failure to monitor client trading activities...more
Recently, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (“ICBC”) entered into two consent orders. The first consent order is with the New York State Department of Financial Services (the “NYDFS”) for alleged deficiencies...more
The Federal Reserve’s Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) will sunset as planned on March 11, ending a program that helped calm the markets after last year’s collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank threatened a...more
OCC Requests Public Comments on Proposed Bank Merger Policy Statement and Rules The OCC has proposed a new policy to increase the transparency of the standards that the agency applies to review business combinations involving...more
As consumer-facing financial institutions of all types—from well-established banks to newly-launched fintechs—set their 2024 regulatory compliance goals, they may wonder if their New Year’s resolutions align with those that...more
Katten's Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks is a monthly newsletter highlighting the latest news and legal developments involving privacy, data and cybersecurity issues across the globe....more
The advent of quantum computing and generative artificial intelligence could potentially pose new risks to the US financial system, warned the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in a report issued to Congress on...more
June 8, 2023- U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (NC-10), along with National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03),...more
How much is an effective Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) Compliance Program Worth? For Toronto-Dominion Bank (“TD”), the answer is at least $225 million––the amount that TD must now pay to First Horizon Bank, after backing...more
May 3, 2023- The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) Federal Open Market Committee issued a statement raising the target range for the Federal funds rate to 5 to 5-1/4 percent....more
On Friday 28 April 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the FRB) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the FDIC) each released a report regarding a recent bank failure. The FRB report covered...more
The Federal Reserve released a detailed report on the supervision and regulation of the former Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The report, released along with a trove of confidential supervisory information pertaining to SVB,...more
April 19, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets held a hearing entitled, "Understanding Stablecoins' Role in Payments and the Need for Legislation."...more
April 14, 2023- U.S Department of the Treasury Chief Implementation Officer Laurel Blatchford and Counselor for Racial Equity Janis Bowdler led one of a series of roundtable discussions with nearly 30 environmental justice...more
Legislative responses to recent banking industry failures could include reinstating various rules that formerly applied to banks with more than $100 billion in assets. There are a variety of measures which bank depositors...more
April 11, 2023- Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks on the global macroeconomy, sovereign debt, Ukraine and multilateral development banks at a press conference as part of the 2023 IMF-World Bank Annual...more
Last year’s cryptocurrency market crash a/k/a “the crypto winter” did not cause trembles in the U.S. economy, but it caused enormous losses to its investors. The near collapse of this decentralized currency market resulted in...more
March 31, 2023- U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced the Financial Compensation for CFPB Whistleblowers Act to authorize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to award financial compensation to...more
On March 15, the Federal Reserve Board announced a July launch date for its FedNow Service. Beginning the first week of April, the Fed will start formally certifying participants...more
On March 12, 2023, in the wake of shutdowns of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank by regulators in their respective states, the Federal Reserve Board announced the creation of a new Bank Term Funding Program (“BTFP”)...more
On Friday, March 10, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and seized its deposits in the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history. In this alert, we’ve mapped out the events...more
UPDATE (3/12 PM): U.S. Treasury Uses Systemic Risk Exception to Protect Depositors of Failed Banks and the Federal Reserve Board Establishes New Emergency Facility. Following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on...more