On October 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) with respect to a new consumer financial data portability rule mandated by Section 1033 of the...more
11/9/2023
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On November 23, 2021, the OCC, Federal Reserve Board, and FDIC issued a joint final rule that requires banking organizations and their service providers to report certain computer-security incidents. A computer-security...more
Federal banking regulators have again demonstrated their focus on bank oversight and management of risk from third party relationships through a series of guidance and proposed guidance published in the third quarter of 2021....more
10/25/2021
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Industrial bank charters continue to gain momentum with approval of Square’s charter; payments and tech companies have become interested in industrial banks lately since the FDIC started approving them after a moratorium from...more
On March 9, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit heard oral argument on the question of whether the OCC can legally issue national bank charters to non-depository financial technology (fintech) firms. The case is...more
3/16/2021
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On July 24, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced plans to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) regarding consumer-authorized third party access to financial records. The...more
The Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve announced in August 2019 that it will develop a new 24x7x365 real time gross settlement (RTGS) system called FedNow. The new system will allow near-instant settlement of...more
On March 17, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved Square Financial Services, Inc.’s (Square Financial) and Nelnet Bank’s applications for deposit insurance, subject to several conditions. The FDIC...more
On October 23, the District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) issued a final judgment setting aside in relevant part the regulation on which the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) based its...more
After six years of deliberation, the Federal Reserve announced on Monday that it will develop a new interbank real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. The Fed expects the system, called FedNow, to be operational in 2023 or...more