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Most industry and academic discussion about the Fed focuses, as is appropriate, on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ role in managing monetary policy and, in particular, its tools for managing interest rates and inflation in the shadow of tariffs …
In a significant step towards modernizing Bank Secrecy Act compliance, FinCEN and certain banking agencies are providing flexibility in “know your customer” requirements for banks.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), …
On June 17, 2025, the Senate passed the GENIUS Act, shorthand for the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, by a bipartisan vote of 68-30, with 18 Democratic Senators supporting the Bill. The GENIUS Act would amend …
In April 2025, the landscape of U.S. crypto regulation shifted significantly. Three of the country’s principal bank regulators – the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – jointly …
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the U.S. agency responsible for insuring all bank deposits and facilitating all bank resolutions. Yet, as only one of three bank regulators, the agency relies on the Federal Reserve (Fed) and Office of …
New bank formation in the United States is at an all-time low, and Americans increasingly rely on non-bank financial technology companies (fintechs) to satisfy their financial services needs. Fintechs that do not operate through banks mostly operate outside the direct …
For better or worse, over the course of my career, I have had the opportunity to participate in the response to three financial crises – the thrift and banking crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s as a member of …
Bank stocks surged the day after Donald J. Trump won election to a second presidential term, recording double-digit gains on a widespread view that financial regulation under the new administration will be more industry friendly than in the current one. …
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 viability of any proposed transaction.
The Federal Deposit …
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently proposed and published a Federal Register notice for a proposed rule that would revise the agency’s Change in Bank Control Act (CIBCA) regulations. Specifically, the proposed rule would add a second layer …
On July 25, 2024, the U.S. prudential bank regulators released a Joint Statement on Banks’ Arrangements With Third Parties To Deliver Bank Deposit Products and Services (Joint Statement),1 along with a request for information on bank-fintech arrangements (RFI) issued …
On July 30, 2024, on a party line 3-2 vote of its Board of Directors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking[1] (the “Proposal” or the “Proposed Rule”) to substantially broaden the scope …
On July 25, 2024, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (together, the “Agencies”) issued a request for information (the “RFI”)[1] regarding arrangements …
On May 6, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Housing Finance Agency re-proposed their joint rule to implement Section 956 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires federal financial regulators …
In a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair and leading British bank historian Charles Goodhart argued in favor of the executive compensation clawback provision in the proposed RECOUP Act, which we analyzed …
In recent months, the U.S. banking regulators have proposed policy statements focused on providing greater insight on the agencies’ review of bank mergers and acquisitions under the Bank Merger Act (BMA).[1] On January 29, 2024, the Office of the …
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) released a Proposed Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions (the Proposal) that outlines the FDIC’s views on its jurisdiction and expectations with respect to each statutory factor under the Bank Merger Act (BMA).…
From 2011 to 2019, the number of bank charters fell by nearly one-third, from 7,357 to 5,177, with community banks accounting for three-quarters of this decline (FDIC Community Bank Report, 2020) In a new paper, we presents compelling …