News & Analysis as of

Department of Financial Services Financial Institutions

ArentFox Schiff

Supreme Court Rules in NRA v. Vullo: Landmark Decision Upholds First Amendment Rights

ArentFox Schiff on

On May 30, the US Supreme Court, in National Rifle Ass’n of Am. v. Vullo, 602 US __ (2024), unanimously held that the National Rifle Association (NRA) plausibly alleged in a complaint that it filed in federal court that...more

Troutman Pepper

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - November 2023 # 3

Troutman Pepper on

To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

Troutman Pepper

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - July 2023 # 4

Troutman Pepper on

To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

New York Department of Financial Services Alters Effectiveness Date of New Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws

New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS or Department) has used its authority to extend a statutorily-mandated January 1, 2022, effective date. As we previously reported in our September 30 Client Alert, the DFS...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

New York Department of Financial Services Issues Proposed Rules Implementing Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws

On September 21, 2021, the State of New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued proposed regulations that will implement statutory requirements related to commercial financing disclosures for certain types of...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

DFS Provides Framework For Cybersecurity Risk

Rivkin Radler LLP on

On February 4, 2021, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued Insurance Circular Letter No. 2, which builds on the robust cybersecurity regulation provided in its 2017 Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500)....more

Jones Day

JONES DAY TALKS®: Financial Regulators and Asset Managers Warm to Acknowledging Climate Risks

Jones Day on

Jones Day partners Lanier Saperstein and Jay Tambe talk about The New York Department of Financial Services' recent guidance on Climate Change and Financial Risks, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's annual January letter to...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

New NYS DFS Cyber Insurance Risk Framework Warns Against Ransom Payments, Includes Notice to Law Enforcement Policy Requirement

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued guidance imposing rigorous cyber risk measurement and management practices on NY-regulated property/casualty insurers that write cyber insurance. The...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

New York State DFS Urges Financial Institutions to Consider and Prepare for Impact of Climate Change

Having sent a similar letter to New York's domestic and foreign insurance companies, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a letter on October 29, 2020 explicitly calling on its regulated financial...more

Goodwin

SEC Adopts Broad Exempt Offering Reforms

Goodwin on

In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted broad exempt offering reforms; the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule, with significant revisions from the original proposal, on ESG investments; the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

NYDFS brings first action to enforce state’s debt collection regulation

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced on September 16 that it has filed a Statement of Charges against debt collector Forster & Garbus LLP (Forster) for alleged violations of the state’s Debt...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

First Enforcement Action by New York Department of Financial Services Under Cybersecurity Regulation

On July 21, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) filed a “Statement of Charges and Notice of Hearing” (the “Charges”) against First American Title Insurance Company (the “Company”) alleging violations of...more

Harris Beach PLLC

New York State Addresses Residential Mortgage Forbearance Procedures

Harris Beach PLLC on

Newly enacted Banking Law 9-x, signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 17, 2020, provides certain financial institutions with a directive to address mortgage forbearances and repayment of deferred amounts granted during...more

McGlinchey Stafford

COVID Law Imposes Forbearance and Loss Mitigation Requirements

McGlinchey Stafford on

On June 17, 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed S8428/A10530 and S8243-C/A10351-B into law. Collectively, in relevant part, the legislation creates N.Y. Banking Law § 9-x, which relates to residential forbearances as a result...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New York Provides Relief to Entities, Consumers & other Obligors Impacted by the Coronavirus in Connection with Banking and...

Foley & Lardner LLP on

On March 12, 2020, the Superintendent of New York State’s Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) issued an Order granting persons and entities impacted by COVID-19 temporary relief from certain requirements under New York...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New York State Department of Financial Services Extends Deadline for Certification of Compliance Filings

NYDFS Extends Deadline to File Certificate of Compliance Under Cybersecurity Regulation in Light of COVID-19 Crisis Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) extended...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Two Powerful New State CFPBs? California, New York Proposals May Rock the Financial World

Joining Pennsylvania, California looks to be the next state to create a state version of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And with recent pronouncements from New York that may place greater authority with its...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York’s Department of Financial Services: the Self-Styled “Regulator of the Future”

Under its new leader, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) has staked out high ground for itself by self-identifying as the “regulator of the future” DFS’s pronouncement came in a July press release issued...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New York Department of Financial Services opens investigation into Facebook advertisers

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Only a few months have passed since the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a charge of discrimination against Facebook, alleging that the ad-targeting techniques used to determine which users would see...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Crypto Firms Make Inroads with State and Federal Regulators

Over the past couple of years, the crypto industry has come under heavy scrutiny from skeptical regulators seeking to root out fraud and protect investors amid the initial coin offering boom that generated over $4 billion in...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Governor Cuomo Mandates Compliance by Credit Reporting Agencies with Sweeping New Cybersecurity Requirements

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a final regulation that requires credit reporting agencies doing business in New York to register annually with the Department of Financial Services (DFS) and also to comply with...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

New York DFS Cybersecurity Certifications Due

The time has come for entities regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services to make their first certification of compliance with the regulator’s cybersecurity rules....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New York Cybersecurity Regulations Could Affect Foreign Banks

Financial institutions covered by the New York State Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) new Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies must file their first annual certification by February 15, 2018....more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Timeline For Compliance With New DFS Cybersecurity Regulations

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

The deadline to comply with the first set of requirements under the new DFS Cybersecurity Regulations (“the Regulations”) is here! By today, August 28, 2017, businesses subject to the Regulations must ensure that they: ...more

Jones Day

Deadline to Comply with New York's Cybersecurity Regulation Is Approaching

Jones Day on

For entities regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services, the deadline for complying with the new Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, 23 NYCRR Part 500, is Monday, August 28, 2017. To...more

73 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 3

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide