Headlines - FDIC Adopts Final Rule Establishing Community Bank Leverage Ratio Framework OCC Issues Compliance Guidance on Registered Appraisal Management Companies CFPB Announces New Policies to Promote Innovation...more
A little-noticed provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) has the potential of curtailing significant investments by private equity firms in banks. Section 616(d) of Dodd-Frank...more
The FDIC is currently responding to one of the worst financial crises in the history of the nation’s banking system. Sheila Bair, Chairman of the FDIC, expects that 2010 “will be the high water mark for the banking crisis.”1...more