The OCC has reversed recent changes to its bank merger policies through an interim final rule. Our client update is a refresher on the new state of play for Bank Merger Act applications t...
House Republicans have set forth their agenda for the financial regulators. Our deck organizes, by agency, the full list of asks in ten recent letters signed by House Republicans. We ha...
Senator Hagerty’s new stablecoin bill – with bipartisan support – builds on several prior bills. The bill offers a compromise to a stumbling block in the last Congress: how to alloc...
A federal payments charter has been on the policy agenda since the first Trump administration and has garnered support from policymakers on both sides of the aisle. New technologies that ...
The FDIC proposal is the latest measure by the federal banking agencies to address perceived risks arising from bank-fintech arrangements – in this case, those involving “custodial ac...
The DOJ, FDIC and OCC have revised their bank merger review standards. The new standards are a major shift for bank M&A and will require a careful, detailed analysis to evaluate the viabi...
The FDIC’s proposed amendment to its CIBCA regulations would give the FDIC greater oversight of investments by non-bank investors in holding companies of FDIC-supervised institutions. ...
The FDIC’s proposed brokered deposit rule would expand the definition of deposit broker and eliminate and narrow exceptions. Changes would affect sweep deposit and fintech arrangements.
The FDIC recently finalized two items of guidance for triennial full filer Title I resolution plans (originally proposed last year) and announced the extension of the 2025 resolution plan...
