A federal district judge rejected states' challenge to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) rules that the permissible interest rate for a loan is determined...more
When the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) last summer issued its Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“ANPR”) to revise the definition of a “Qualified Mortgage” (“QM”) under the Dodd-Frank Act’s...more
The OCC and FDIC issued proposed rules this week intended to eliminate the uncertainty created by the Second Circuit’s decision in Madden v. Midland Funding. In that decision, the Second Circuit held that a nonbank that...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
The OCC and FDIC have filed a joint amicus brief in a Colorado federal district court arguing that the court should affirm the decision of a bankruptcy court holding that a non-bank loan assignee could charge the same...more
The certiorari petition asks the court to address whether the National Bank Act continues to have preemptive effect after the national bank has sold or otherwise assigned a loan to another entity. In a petition for a...more