As the second quarter of 2017 comes to a close, we have updated our brief deck summarizing the leadership and staffing changes among federal financial regulators, including announced nom...
The OCC’s fintech charter proposal is generating a lot of political and media sound and fury. Comptroller Curry’s speech in strong defense of the fintech charter was followed by a let...
While those of us in parts of the Mid-West and the East Coast received a snowy reminder this week that winter is still with us, a modest thaw of sorts nevertheless arrived on Thursday in ...
Media organizations have obtained a leaked memo originating from Representative Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, that outlines planned changes to the ve...
Yesterday afternoon, President Trump issued a memorandum directing the DOL to review the fiduciary rule it released last April that expanded the definition of an investment advice fiducia...
There is a world of difference between the initial public perceptions and the actual text of the executive order. The elegantly written Executive Order, sets forth a series of core princi...
For our view that there is unlikely to be a dramatic shift in the Dodd-Frank regulatory paradigm, but that there are plenty of very good reasons to engage in a serious rebalancing of rece...
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s A Better Way policy agenda states that “it is time for serious and fundamental reform” of how regulations are made. The House of Representatives is conside...
We have been asked whether our thoughts on the Trump administration’s regulatory freeze memo apply to the hiring freeze memo that was published yesterday. The answer is sort of: the hir...
Early press accounts of President Trump’s regulatory moratorium are highly misleading for financial sector regulations. On Friday, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued a me...
