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 Sixth Circuit has set aside the Federal Communications Commission’s 2024 order reimposing net neutrality regulations on broadband internet service providers. Applying Loper Bright, th...
Our client update highlights aspects of the second Trump administration’s announced (or possible) regulatory, legislative and economic priorities, along with the outlook for congression...
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...
