On February 10, FDIC Board Member Jonathan McKernan announced on social media he vacated his seat due to his term’s expiration and the appointment of a new Acting Comptroller of the Currency. As previously covered by...more
Over one year ago, on October 3, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proposed supervisory guidelines that would establish standards for corporate governance and risk management for all state non-member...more
One of the most fundamental activities of an insured depository institution (IDI) is taking and safekeeping customer deposits. However, a recent proposed rulemaking by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) poses...more
On March 24, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that it had issued an advisory letter to a United States-based neobank, demanding that the company immediately cease and desist and take...more
On March 13, 2023, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen invoked the systemic risk exemption after receiving recommendations from the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve Board...more
On February 15th, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued another round of cease-and-desist letters demanding that companies stop making false and misleading statements regarding deposit insurance coverage....more
On February 15, the FDIC sent letters to four entities demanding that they stop making false or misleading representations about FDIC deposit insurance. Letters were sent to a cryptocurrency exchange and to a nonbank...more
On December 23, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 7776, the “James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023” (the “NDAA 2023”). What many may not yet realize is that Section 5705 of the NDAA...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) published for comment in December 2022 a notice of proposed rulemaking (12 CFR Part 328) (“Proposed Rule”) that would apply to all FDIC-insured institutions and impose new...more
On July 25, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) announced amendments to its Enforcement Actions Manual. The amendments to chapters 1 and 4 update and clarify the FDIC’s approach to terminating cease-and-desist...more
On May 17, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued Financial Institutions Letter 22-2022 updating the FDIC’s Guidelines for Appeals of Material Supervisory Determinations. The revised Guidelines restore the...more
Effective April 1, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) launched a “Brokered Deposit” bankers’ resource web page, concurrently with the effective date of its final rule (the “Rule”) to modernize the...more
On December 15, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) setting forth standards to apply to controlling shareholders of industrial banks that are not subject to consolidated...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is accepting comments until March 16, 2020 on the proposed codification to the Statement of Policy for Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as well as...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 FDIC has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) seeking comment on its regulatory approach to brokered deposits and interest rate restrictions. ...more
Earlier this month, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued final interagency rules which will reduce regulatory...more