Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Did the Supreme Court Hand the CFPB a Pyrrhic Victory?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Understanding the Federal Reserve Board Proposal to Lower Interchange Fee Cap for Debit Card Transactions
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Community Reinvestment Act Reform: A Close Look at the Final Rule
The Future of Payments: Exploring FedNow With the Payments Professor — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Federal Banking Interagency Final Guidance on Third-Party Relationships - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What is FedNow and its Role in the U.S. Payments System?
Breaking (Down) the Debt Ceiling
Podcast: 2023 Deal Cycle - Considerations for Transactions in Uncertain Economic Times - Diagnosing Health Care
Crypto Year in Review 2022: Federal Reserve and Central Bank Digital Currencies and FDIC/OCC Regulatory Developments - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Is the U.S. Payments System Failing Business and Consumers? A Discussion with Special Guest Dan Awrey, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
DE Under 3: Latest Monthly Jobs Report, Unemployment & the US BLS JOLTS Report
Stablecoin Regulation in an Unstable Time: The Fed and Treasury Address a Stablecoin Regulatory Framework
Congressional and Federal Agency Action Following Executive Order on Digital Assets Policy
The Return of TALF Fund Opportunities Via COVID-19 Relief
Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): Recap and What to Expect in 2014
The proposal would establish stricter oversight of certain transactions and responds to concerns that large asset managers may be exerting influence on FDIC-supervised institutions. On July 30, 2024, the Board of...more
On July 18, the OCC, FDIC, and the Fed (the federal banking agencies or FBAs) submitted a brief requesting that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit hold oral argument and reverse the U.S. District Court for the...more
Components of the U.S. Federal Reserve System recently prevailed in two lawsuits in which both plaintiffs – Custodia Bank and PayServices Bank – alleged the defendants were required to grant the plaintiffs’ master account...more
A U.S. District Court recently rejected arguments that banks and institutions with novel charters have a statutory right to obtain a Federal Reserve master account. Master accounts let institutions access key parts of the...more
At the end of March, components of the US Federal Reserve System (“FRS” or the “Fed”) prevailed in two lawsuits brought by depository institutions seeking master accounts.1 These decisions have significant implications for...more
The Federal Reserve’s Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) will sunset as planned on March 11, ending a program that helped calm the markets after last year’s collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank threatened a...more
On January 24, the Federal Reserve announced that its program created to protect liquidity following a period of financial stress last spring, named the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), will stop making loans on March 11....more
On 7/20/ 23, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system announced the launch of the FedNow Service. FedNow is a new instant payment infrastructure developed by the Federal Reserve that is available to depository...more
On October 6, the Fed approved a final rule to implement a rule establishing capital requirements for insurers it supervises. The final rule includes the Building Block Approach (BBA) framework, which is a regulatory...more
On March 10, 2023 the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation ("CDFPI") closed Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB"), a California chartered, non-member bank. The CDFPI placed SVB into receivership and appointed...more
On July 28, the OCC, FDIC, NCUA and Fed issued an addendum to the Interagency Policy Statement on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management, issued in 2010. The update on liquidity risks and contingency planning emphasizes that...more
On July 28, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)...more
Consumers and businesses stand to benefit from rapid access to funds at any time when routed through participating financial institutions. On July 20, 2023, the Federal Reserve announced the long-awaited launch of its...more
On June 16, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) launched its Master Account and Services Database, providing a searchable database on which financial institutions have access to the Federal...more
On April 28, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Federal Reserve”) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) each released reports detailing the respective agency’s supervision history...more
Congress will be “starting from scratch” in attempting to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins — an issue that many believe is the top digital asset legislative priority. On April 15, 2023, the US House...more
Legislative responses to recent banking industry failures could include reinstating various rules that formerly applied to banks with more than $100 billion in assets. There are a variety of measures which bank depositors...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) guarantees bank deposits of up to $250,000. Following the failure of two banks in recent weeks, regulators created some confusion among the industry and the public when they...more
President Recommends Regulatory Reforms to Address Recent Bank Failures - President Biden has issued a statement urging the federal banking agencies to adopt regulatory reforms that are meant to reduce the risk of future...more
“Z” Doors Are Open: Rival Zero Knowledge EVMs Launch - Earlier this week, a technology innovation lab reportedly released a public Alpha version of its “zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine” (zkEVM), which has been...more
On March 13, the Federal Reserve Board issued FAQs on its Bank Term Funding Program, which launched March 12, to provide additional funding to eligible depository institutions in order to meet depositors’ needs. The program...more
A little over a week has passed since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) became receiver of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank (Signature), and since the issuance of the joint statement by the FDIC, the U.S....more
This week the Federal Reserve reported that its instant payment service, FedNow, will be available for all participating financial institutions to use starting in July 2023....more
Regulatory Developments - The U.S. Government Takes Action on the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Failures - On March 12, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the U.S....more
As we noted very briefly on Monday in our “Quick Take on a Sudden Change in the Banking Landscape,” among the various actions the government took Sunday evening to try to stabilize the banking market, the Federal Reserve...more