The OCC’s new rule titled “Permissible Interest on Loans That Are Sold, Assigned, or Otherwise Transferred” (the Permissible Interest Rule) states that a national bank “may transfer a loan without impacting the permissibility...more
On September 10, the FDIC and the OCC jointly submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in support of the appellee debt buyer in In re Rent-Rite Super Kegs West Ltd. ...more
9/19/2019
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A watershed moment is “the exact moment that changes the direction of an activity or situation . . . a dividing point, from which things will never be the same.” The Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2015 decision in Madden v....more
5/3/2019
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Madden v Midland Funding ,
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Participation Agreements ,
Usury ,
Valid When Made Doctrine
When differences emerge between the activities of state banks and national banks in the U.S. dual banking system, the root cause typically is a difference between state and federal law....more
A careful parsing of state laws should be done if a lender is relying on a choice of law to avoid states that have criminal usury statutes.
On February 27, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York...more
3/8/2017
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