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
On July 19, 2024, the Federal Reserve Board announced it had fined a Utah-based company that offers prepaid debit cards $44 million for alleged unfair and deceptive practices as well as an alleged deficient consumer...more
A group of federal agencies have finalized reconsideration of value (ROV) guidance for residential real estate valuations. The agencies are the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),...more
Situation Overview: The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) uses the stress tests as a key supervisory tool to explore risks across large banks. This year’s results quantified the impact to banks under multiple new scenarios,...more
With regulators keeping close watch, the results underscore the need for ongoing climate risk management investment and adaptation within the financial sector. On May 9, 2024, the Board of Governors of the Federal...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 Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Federal Reserve Board and CFPB has issued a report on its evaluation of the CFPB’s process for conducting enforcement investigations. OIG concluded that the CFPB can enhance...more
From January 18th to 20th, the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee of the Business Law Section held its winter meeting in Washington, DC. This meeting not only provides an excellent retrospective of the previous...more
Our special guest is Zarik Khan, Founder of Finsolute Advisors. In October 2023, the Federal Reserve Board issued a proposal to lower the maximum interchange fee that a large debit card issuer can receive for a debit card...more
Last Friday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the ECB Forum on Banking Supervision in Frankfurt, Germany entitled The Importance of Effective Liquidity Risk...more
On November 13, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced increased dollar thresholds used to determine whether certain consumer credit and lease transactions in 2024 are...more
A proposed rule would lower the maximum amount that large debit card issuers can charge merchants for each transaction. On October 25, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) published a proposal...more
On November 3, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) voted unanimously to finalize the procedures for designating a nonbank financial company for Federal Reserve supervision. FSOC’s Interpretive Guidance aims to...more
The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) proposes to lower fees for debit card purchases. The FRB announced proposed rulemaking to reset its Durbin Amendment cap on interchange fees to 17.7 cents on an average transaction from 24.5...more
As we mentioned last week, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) announced proposed changes to Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), which is the implementing regulation of the Durbin Amendment to the...more
The Federal Reserve Board announced proposed changes to Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), which is the implementing regulation of the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act....more
On October 24, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the agencies) finally issued their long-awaited final...more
Last week, Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) Governor Michelle Bowman gave a speech entitled Financial Stability in Uncertain Times, focusing on the “financial stability risks and vulnerabilities” she is most focused on....more
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (FRB) is holding an open meeting on October 25, 2023 to discuss proposed revisions to the Board’s debit interchange fee cap contained in Regulation II, which implemented the...more
At its open Board meeting scheduled for October 24, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board is expected to approve its final rule amending its current regulation implementing the Community Reinvestment Act....more
On Monday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the American Bankers Association Annual Convention entitled Capital Supports Lending regarding the Basel III...more
On September 28, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) posted three new FAQs to its website regarding Regulation Q (Capital Adequacy of Bank Holding Companies, Savings and Loan Holding Companies, and State Member Banks). The FAQ...more
On August 8, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) issued two Supervision and Regulation Letters (“SR Letters”) that provide guidance on the agency’s supervision of novel activities and the process...more
Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) released two supervision and regulation letters regarding the agency’s program to supervise “novel” banking activities....more
A new program addresses innovative banking activities such as bank-fintech partnerships and digital assets while reinforcing guardrails around stablecoin activity. On August 8, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal...more