CFPB, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Attorneys General
The Federal Reserve Board recently issued a Service Announcement setting forth the details of its FedNow Service, a new 24x7x365 interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments in the United States.
The Fed announced its decision to develop the FedNow Service in a notice and request for comment issued in August 2019. …
Effective April 24, 2020, the Federal Reserve amended Regulation D to remove the six-per-month limit on transfers or withdrawals from the definition of a “savings deposit.” The amendment is set forth in an interim final rule published in the Federal Register on April 28. Comments on the interim final rule must be filed by June…
The CFPB, OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, and NCUA have issued a joint statement “to specifically encourage” banks, savings associations, and credit unions “to offer responsible small-dollar loans to both consumers and small businesses” in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The statement builds on the March 19 statement issued jointly by the OCC, FDIC, and Federal…
Last month, the Federal Reserve Board announced its plans to develop a real-time payments (RTP) service to be offered by the Federal Reserve Banks to directly support faster payments.
Three members of Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group with extensive experience negotiating complex payments transactions for some of the world’s largest retailers and financial institutions…
The Federal Reserve Board has determined that the Federal Reserve should take the following two actions:
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The Federal Reserve Board has published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking with request for comment on a proposal to simplify and increase transparency of its rules for determining control of a banking organization. The proposal’s comment period closes on July 15, 2019.
The proposed revisions to the Board’s control regulations would…
The FDIC and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors issued a joint advisory to make financial institutions aware of a 2018 amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act that provides that a financial institution may, but is not required, to offer a loan rehabilitation program (Section 602 Program) to private education loan borrowers whose credit…
Last July, the OCC announced its decision to accept applications for special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters from fintech companies. At that time we observed that, while not discussed in the materials released by the OCC, it appeared that a fintech company holding an SPNB charter would be required to be a member of…
On November 20, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and CFPB jointly proposed amendments to Reg. CC, which implements the Expedited Funds Availability Act (EFA Act), and also reopened for public comment various amendments that the FRB had proposed in March of 2011. This new proposal is in addition to the amendments to Reg.
The American Bankers Association and the Bank Policy Institute have sent a letter to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) to petition the Fed to engage in rulemaking to clarify the Fed’s September 2018 “Interagency Statement Clarifying the Role of Supervisory Guidance” (the “Interagency Statement”). The Interagency Statement was…
