On February 12th, the White House announced numerous nominations to be sent to the Senate. The large list of nominations included three nominations for financial regulators. President Trump is nominating, Jonathan Gould to be...more
This week, the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held oversight hearings with leaders of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), the National Credit...more
11/17/2023
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On Tuesday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, the “Agencies”) issued a final rule to amend and update...more
On Monday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the American Bankers Association Annual Convention entitled Capital Supports Lending regarding the Basel III...more
As we covered previously, on July 27, 2023, the U.S. prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”)...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, the “Agencies”) issued a proposed rule (the “LTD NPR”) to require large banks...more
On July 27, 2023, the U.S. federal prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) proposed new capital requirements...more
On June 30, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”) finalized their Policy...more
7/7/2023
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Debt Restructuring ,
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NCUA ,
OCC ,
Policy Statement ,
Regulatory Agencies
Last week, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”), and the Consumer Financial...more
6/16/2023
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Discrimination ,
Disparate Impact ,
FDIC ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FIRREA ,
FRB ,
Interagency Guidance ,
NCUA ,
OCC ,
Property Valuation ,
Real Estate Market ,
Real Estate Transactions
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued its Semiannual Risk Perspective for Spring 2023 (“SARP”) recently. The OCC highlighted liquidity, operational, credit, and compliance risks, among the key risk...more
On June 6, the three Federal bank regulatory agencies (the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”)), issued final interagency...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued an updated Policies and Procedures Manual (PPM 5310-3) on Bank Enforcement Actions and Related Matters last week. The PPM is updated from the 2018 issuance. The...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) (collectively, the “Agencies”) provided supervisory guidance this week on certain overdraft practices. Of particular...more
4/28/2023
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Federal Reserve ,
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New Guidance ,
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Overdraft Rule ,
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UDAP ,
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This week, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu delivered remarks, titled “Trust and Global Banking: Lessons for Crypto,” at the Institute of International Bankers’ (“IIB”) Annual Washington Conference in which he...more
Earlier yesterday, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued a “Joint Statement on Liquidity Risks to Banking Organizations...more
2/24/2023
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Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
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FRB ,
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Policy Statement
The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) last week released their 2023 Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test (“DFAST”) scenarios. As noted in the FRB’s release, the “stress tests help...more
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu delivered remarks, titled “Detecting, Preventing, and Addressing Too Big To Manage,” at the Brookings Institution yesterday in which he addressed and offered a possible solution...more
On December 22, just before many of us may have started turning to our holiday breaks, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”)...more
1/12/2023
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Enforcement Guidance ,
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Interagency Guidance ,
No-Action Relief ,
OCC ,
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Shareholders
The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Board issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) titled “Resolution-Related Resource Requirements for Large Banking...more
10/20/2022
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Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
FRB ,
Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) ,
Mergers ,
OCC ,
Regulatory Agenda
Last week, just after we went to press, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) released its Bank Supervision Operating Plan for Fiscal Year 2023.
The Operating Plan sets out the OCC’s supervision...more
As we reported in May, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, the “Agencies”) issued a notice of proposed...more
9/19/2022
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Community Reinvestment Act ,
Environmental Justice ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Lending ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
OCC ,
Redlining ,
Rulemaking Process
On July 19, Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) Vice Chair Lael Brainard gave remarks to the National Native Coalition Virtual Series sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians. Her remarks focused on the joint proposal...more
7/26/2022
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Comment Period ,
Community Reinvestment Act ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
FRB ,
Investment ,
Native American Issues ,
OCC ,
Rural Development ,
Tribal Lands
On July 6, five federal agencies − the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“FRB”), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), National Credit Union...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued its Semiannual Risk Perspective for Spring 2022 on June 23. This was the same day the Federal Reserve released the results of its stress test for large bank holding...more
As we mentioned briefly in our newsletter last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, “The Agencies”)...more
5/17/2022
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