Weekly Brief: BoA Sued; SCOTUS Shortlists; Fund Fights Argentina
July 15, 2024 - The Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors submitted a joint comment letter stating that the Federal Housing Finance Agency should not make any...more
June 13, 2024- President Joe Biden nominated current Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero to be Chair and Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. June 13, 2024 - ...more
May 20, 2024- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Martin J. Gruenberg issued a statement announcing he is prepared to step down as Chair once a successor is confirmed. May 20, 2024 - Senator Sherrod Brown...more
Federal Reserve Board. Extended comment period. On April 24, 2024, FRB and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said they would continue to accept comments on Capital One's proposed acquisition of Discover Financial...more
April 15, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published the April 2024 Empire State Manufacturing Survey. April 15, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released the SCE Labor Market Survey results for...more
March 11, 2024- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Vice Chair Travis Hill gave remarks at the Mercatus Center entitled, "Banking's Next Chapter? Remarks on Tokenization and Other Issues."...more
February 20, 2024- The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a small entity compliance guide today that provides an overview of the requirements regarding access to beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
December 26, 2023- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation released the public sections of resolution plans of nine large domestic covered insured depository institutions due by December 1, 2023....more
December 19, 2023- U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH), Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) led 76 of their colleagues in...more
December 14, 2023 - FSOC Issues Annual Report- The Financial Stability Oversight Council released its 2023 annual report reviewing financial market developments, describing potential emerging threats to U.S. financial...more
December 7, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Banking Committee Republicans are calling on Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin...more
November 21, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury, through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI), has settled with Binance...more
The proposed rule, if adopted, would apply to mortgage originators and issuers of mortgage-backed securitizations that rely on automated valuation models (“AVMs”) to determine the value of real estate collateral. The...more
October 24, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly issued a final rule to modernize regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment...more
October 16, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Cyber Security Council of the United Arab Emirates announced the finalization of a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding on Cybersecurity Cooperation during a...more
June 21, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing on the following nominations: •The Honorable Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, to be Vice Chairman of the...more
In what is now the second largest bank failure in United States history, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation closed embattled San Francisco-based First Republic Bank shortly after midnight...more
December 22, 2022- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today issued a revised interagency statement to extend the...more
December 15, 2022- The New York State Department of Financial Services released Guidance to banking organizations regulated by the NYDFS that wish to engage in virtual currency-related activities....more
November 22, 2022- The Federal Reserve Board published a paper entitled, "Choices and Implications when Measuring the Local Supply of Prescription Opioids."...more
October 21, 2022 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen and White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda D. Young today released the final budget results for fiscal year 2022....more
October 17, 2022- U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control Director Andrea Gacki and HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation Director Giles Thomson published a joint article...more
October 3, 2022- The Financial Stability Oversight Council held a meeting on October 3, 2022 where it unanimously approved its Report on Digital Asset Financial Stability Risks and Regulation....more
August 10, 2022- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interpretive rule laying out when digital marketing providers for financial firms must comply with federal consumer financial protection law....more
August 2, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "'The Rent Eats First': How Renters and Communities are Impacted by Today's Housing Market."...more