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BY MICHELE ALT When it comes to bank charters, there’s a sizable gulf between the OCC’s words and actions. In his February 21 speech at...

BY POORANI JEYASEKAR AND DAT TRAN President Biden’s executive order on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of...

BY POORANI JEYASEKAR AND DAT TRAN In today’s competitive landscape, the mantra of ‘doing more with less’ resonates across multiple...

The Fed’s announcement regarding its Novel Activities Supervision Program makes clear that some state member banks that partner with...

BY KEVIN STEIN FDIC Chairman Marty Gruenberg’s recent speech at the Brookings Institution Center for Regulation and Markets had some...

BY TOD GORDON Bank liquidity regulation and resulting practices were derived and honed from the learnings of the Financial Crisis. A...

BY MICHELE ALT In the Fed report analyzing the dramatic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for...

By PATRICK HAGGERTY Following the announcement over the weekend that Swiss regulators had forced through an emergency acquisition by UBS...

Happy New Year from the Klaros Group! Like our media friends at Axios, Bloomberg, and Fortune, we took stock of the trends that dominated...

BY CHRISTINA HUNT-FUHR, PAUL MARKER, AND DAT TRAN There’s a lot to unpack in the CFPB’s recent press release and consent order against...

BY PATRICK HAGGERTY Banks have been providing back-end services that enable nonbanks to offer financial services to their customers for...

BY TRACY BASINGER Time is getting short for bankers to submit comments on the proposed interagency revamp of the Community Reinvestment...

BY JONAH CRANE AND JOHANNE LAURBERG On April 25, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it would dust off...

By Catherine Brown and Paul Marker Since his nomination by President Biden, we’ve anticipated CFPB Director Rohit Chopra will adopt a...

The drumbeat signaling the advent of climate risk supervision just got louder - and while final supervisory guidance is still likely some...

On April 19, as Congress was debating how much funding to add to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), I argued that the funding under...

Last Thursday, the Small Business Administration officially announced the inevitable: the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Federal...