Financial services regulatory reform will continue to be active in 2021, with the Biden Administration focused on activity at the intersection of financial regulation and social policy. ...
President Biden signed an ambitious Executive Order on July 9, 2021, which pushes several federal agencies to advance competition principles in a range of economic sectors, and establishe...
The FDIC announced a modified approach to implementing its insured depository institution (IDI) resolution planning rule for IDIs with $100 billion or more in total assets. Our client upd...
The SEC’s request for public input on climate disclosures attracted 297 institutional comments totaling 3,290 pages. The views range from questioning the SEC’s authority to imploring...
On June 30, President Biden signed the resolution to repeal the OCC’s true lender rule from the Trump administration. With majority votes from the House and the Senate, the rule has bee...
The Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk is the latest significant step by the Biden Administration to analyze and mitigate the risks that climate change poses to the U.S. ec...
The Fed’s recent proposal marks the latest development on one of the most important policy questions for the U.S. financial system today: who is entitled to have a master account? A mas...
Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, Third Edition, Foundation Press, May 2021
This textbook analyzes and compares the market and regulatory architecture of the entire U.S. financial sec...
A recent guilty conviction, after a jury trial, shows how complex and fraught the zigzag path to marijuana legalization is in the payments space. At a time when the federal government has...
