The OCC has removed “reputational risk” from its handbooks and guidance and the FDIC is moving to do the same. ...more
On April 15, the FDIC announced updated guidance on sending official correspondence related to supervisory matters. The FDIC’s guidance made permanent those temporary, previous measures for electronically sending and...more
This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a memo to staff outlining its new supervision and enforcement priorities for 2025....more
The CFPB is rescinding its existing enforcement and supervision priority documents, according to a memo sent to bureau staff by CFPB Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta....more
On January 7, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) released its supervisory priorities for 2025, outlining the key areas of focus for federally insured credit unions. This guidance is crucial for credit unions as...more
The CFPB has issued a final rule to supervise large nonbank financial services providers that offer general-use digital consumer payment applications such as digital wallets and peer-to-peer payment apps....more
As of June 1, 2024, FINRA member firms have been able to identify as a “Residential Supervisory Location” (RSL) a “private residence from which an associated person engages in supervisory functions,” so long as certain...more
On 29 February 2024, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published a new Regulatory & Supervisory Outlook Report outlining the key trends and risks which the Central Bank has identified as moulding the financial...more
On February 23, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) published an order establishing supervisory authority over a small-loan consumer finance company, using a Dodd-Frank Act provision that...more
The CFPB has revised its internal supervisory appeals process for institutions seeking to appeal a compliance rating or an adverse material finding. The revisions became effective immediately upon publication in the Federal...more
On February 16, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced what it heralded as a significant update to its Supervisory Appeals Process. The first of its kind since 2015, this revision introduced a...more
On February 6, 2024, National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Chairman Todd M. Harper spoke at a Brookings Institution event to outline his regulatory agenda and supervisory priorities for 2024. His prepared remarks...more
As discussed, in a recent letter, the Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) outlined the agency’s supervisory priorities for 2024. In this post, we delve deeper into the area of consumer protection...more
On January 23, the Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) released a letter outlining its supervisory priorities for the new year. While the organization acknowledged that the credit union system had...more
Rebecca Jackson, Executive Director, Authorisations, Regulatory Technology, and International Supervision at the Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") has written to international banks on the PRA’s thematic supervision...more
The Situation: In October 2023, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC"), Federal Reserve System, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC," and the three agencies collectively, "Agencies") finalized...more
On October 16 of last year, I reported that Eric Halperin, Enforcement Director of the CFPB, announced that the CFPB intended to substantially increase the number of enforcement staff by 50% and to create a 5th litigation...more
On November 3, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) voted unanimously to finalize the procedures for designating a nonbank financial company for Federal Reserve supervision. FSOC’s Interpretive Guidance aims to...more
On October 4, 2023, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (“OSFI”) released details of a new supervisory framework (“New Framework”) that will apply as of April 1, 2024 to federally-regulated financial...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) Committee on Bank Supervision (CBS) recently issued its annual Bank Supervision Operating Plan for FY 2024, which sets forth the OCC’s supervision priorities and...more
The FDIC has filed motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed in July 2023 in a Minnesota federal district against the FDIC and its Chairman seeking to invalidate the FDIC’s supervisory guidance on charging multiple non-sufficient...more
On July 6, 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in collaboration with National Competent Authorities (NCAs), launched the Common Supervisory Action (CSA) aimed at assessing the compliance of supervised...more
On August 8, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) issued two Supervision and Regulation Letters (“SR Letters”) that provide guidance on the agency’s supervision of novel activities and the process...more
Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) released two supervision and regulation letters regarding the agency’s program to supervise “novel” banking activities....more
On Monday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Chair Martin Gruenberg gave remarks to the Brookings Institution on “The Resolution of Large Regional Banks.” Chair Gruenberg did not say “I told you so” in his...more