On December 14, 2021, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of Currency (“OCC”) adopted a new final rule (“Final Rule”) under the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, as amended (the “CRA”) which will be effective on...more
On July 20, 2021, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “FRB”), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”, and collectively with the FRB...more
The Federal Reserve Board recently issued a final decision In the Matter of: Frank Smith and Mark Kiolbasa, Institution Affiliated Parties of Farmers State Bank, Docket No. 18-036-E-1. The decision creates a significant...more
Effective April 1, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) launched a “Brokered Deposit” bankers’ resource web page, concurrently with the effective date of its final rule (the “Rule”) to modernize the...more
On December 15, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a final rule (the “Rule”) to modernize its regulations that implement Section 29 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (“FDI Act”). The FDIC...more
Readers will recall that in our previous articles concerning the latest developments in money transmittal laws, we noted state regulators’ increasing tendency to enforce their state money transmittal laws on out-of-state...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“the OCC”) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPR) to revise and reorganize its regulations relating to the activities and operations of national banks and Federal...more
This QuickStudy is intended to supplement our previous QuickStudy, published on June 17, 2019, regarding the election to be treated as a “covered savings association.” On July 1st, the OCC issued Bulletin 2019-31 (the...more
On May 24th the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued its final regulation (“final regulation”) implementing the provisions of the newly created section 5A of the Home Owners’ Loan Act. This new section 5A allows...more
On December 19th, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a final rule regarding how it will address receiverships of special purpose national banks which do not have deposits insured by the Federal Deposit...more
In June of 2010 bank regulatory agencies issued final guidance relating to incentive compensation arrangements at all financial institutions. Shortly thereafter in July, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act....more
On October 28, 2015, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published in the Federal Register final rules to streamline the filing requirements and processing procedures within its regulations implementing the...more
On May 18, 2015, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a final rule to integrate the policies and procedures for corporate activities and transactions of national banks and Federal savings associations....more