With the House expected to vote on a cannabis-related bill this week, we have updated our visual memorandum to describe the three different cannabis bills—and three different approaches...
In a long-awaited milestone, the SEC has proposed an update of Guide 3, the industry guide for banking organizations. The proposal eliminates a number of the current requirements under G...
The independence and role of the legal department within regulated banking organizations has come under pressure in recent years. This pressure has been exacerbated by a clash of professi...
The FDIC and the OCC approved final amendments to the original Volcker Rule regulations, which were first adopted in December 2013. The Federal Reserve, SEC and CFTC are expected to appr...
Financial services regulatory reform continues to evolve in 2019. As we observe the changing landscape, here is the Fall Focus Edition of our reference tool, which provides context and s...
As we look forward to fall, we have updated our brief deck summarizing the leadership and staffing changes among federal financial regulators, including announced nominations, confirmatio...
The Business Roundtable has set out a path toward so-called stakeholder capitalism in its highly publicized Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation. There has been a great deal of media...
Navigating the outdated rules on confidential supervisory information has become increasingly difficult in the digital world because the rules have their origin in the paper-based world o...
The Federal Reserve has announced that it plans to build its own 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system for retail payments, called the FedNow Service. In a 4-1 decision, with...
This article aims to demystify the legal framework and legal interpretation for the newly minted, digital-native lawyer and for the curious regulatory reader, using the banking sector as ...
