President Trump campaigned on the promise to make the United States the “crypto capital” of the world. In his first days in office, he took steps to advance that goal, including by signing an executive order designed to...more
2/10/2025
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On July 25, 2024, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a joint statement describing potential...more
The expansive final rule overhauls how banks are evaluated for lending to low- and moderate-income customers.
The federal banking regulators issued a joint final rule that will govern Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently published a consent order issued against Cross River Bank that alleged the bank’s fair lending program’s noncompliance and weaknesses in its oversight of fintech...more
6/21/2023
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Lenders will soon be required to collect detailed demographic and financial data on commercial credit applicants and report this data to regulators.
The NYDFS issued a proposed rule that will require New York banks to...more
11/11/2022
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Regulators took a first step toward modernizing CRA regulations with a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
The proposed rule would add more standardized metrics for regulators’ CRA examinations and more clearly delineate...more
In response to increasingly frequent and sophisticated cybersecurity attacks on banks and bank service providers, the federal prudential banking regulators—the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of...more
12/2/2021
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