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Banking

  • May 14, 2025

    Fintech Group OK'd To Defend Ƶ Open-Banking Rule

    Fintech industry group the Financial Technology Association received the green light on Wednesday to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's open banking rule in an ongoing legal challenge from the banking industry.

  • May 14, 2025

    BofA, Fla. Woman End Suit Over Imposter's $2M Grab

    Bank of America has settled a suit accusing the bank of failing to protect a 67-year-old Florida woman's accounts as she fell victim to a sophisticated social engineering scam by a person posing as a Federal Trade Commission investigator who stole $2 million.

  • May 14, 2025

    Trump's Unorthodox US Atty Picks May Face Learning Curve

    While some of President Donald Trump's picks for U.S. attorney fit the typical mold — former federal prosecutors and BigLaw alums — others lack the type of court experience that can be crucial for effective office management and earning the respect of judges, experts say.

  • May 14, 2025

    Venture-Backed Tech IPOs Forge Ahead As Momentum Builds

    Venture-backed mobile banker Chime Financial Inc. has filed for an initial public offering, while advertising technology platform MNTN Inc. unveiled a price range on an estimated $176 million listing, marking the latest developments this week to bolster the IPO pipeline.

  • May 14, 2025

    Judge Beats Ex-Law Student's Suit At 11th Circ.

    The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday largely upheld the dismissal of a suit from a former law student and federal prosecutors' intern accusing a Florida federal judge and government attorneys of ruining his job prospects, finding that the judge has immunity while the lawyers' acts were mostly part of their jobs.

  • May 14, 2025

    CFTC's Mersinger Will Depart Agency To Lead Crypto Lobby

    U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Summer Mersinger is leaving the agency to lead cryptocurrency industry group the Blockchain Association, the organization announced Wednesday.

  • May 14, 2025

    NY AG Says Capital One Denied Millions In Account Interest

    New York's attorney general on Wednesday sued Capital One in New York federal court, alleging the bank deprived online savings customers of millions of dollars in interest, a case that echoes a lawsuit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently abandoned.

  • May 13, 2025

    Ƶ Floats Repeal Of Biden-Era Registry, Designation Rules

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday that it will seek to close its "repeat offender" registry and stop disclosing its decisions to tag potentially risky firms for closer oversight, stepping back from two Biden-era initiatives aimed at greater nonbank scrutiny.

  • May 13, 2025

    Wells Fargo Asks 9th Circ. To Undo 'Sham' Hiring Class Cert.

    Wells Fargo has asked the Ninth Circuit to intervene and undo the class certification granted to investors who have claimed that the bank's alleged practice of conducting "sham" interviews to meet diversity quotas harmed the bank's stock price when the truth came to light.

  • May 13, 2025

    Crypto Platform's Ex-Brass Plead Guilty To $150M Fraud

    Two former executives behind bankrupt cryptocurrency investment platform Cred Inc. pled guilty Tuesday in California federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting they gave customers "an unreasonably positive" portrayal of the business ahead of a collapse that prosecutors say wiped out up to $150 million in customer crypto.

  • May 13, 2025

    Ƶ Calls Off Suit Over Walmart Driver Deposit Accounts

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a Minnesota federal court Tuesday that it is dropping its enforcement lawsuit that accused Walmart and fintech company Branch Messenger Inc. of forcing delivery drivers to use costly deposit accounts to receive wages, months after the court put the case on hold.

  • May 13, 2025

    FINRA Fines Goldman $1.4M Over Faulty CAT Data Reports

    Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC has agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims that it failed to properly report data for billions of stock market trades, according to a filing posted by FINRA on Tuesday.

  • May 13, 2025

    Pot Payment Co. Wants Court To Enforce $1.3M Deal

    A Boulder, Colorado, fintech company said its former business associates in a failed joint venture to create a cannabis payment system cannot be trusted to pay the $1.3 million settlement meant to end all claims of fraud, urging a Nevada federal court to step in and force them to follow through.

  • May 13, 2025

    Kansas City Bank Fights Ex-Detainees' Debit Fee Case

    A Kansas City, Missouri-based bank urged a Washington federal judge to dismiss a class action from former detainees who said they were hit with illegal card fees to get back money confiscated from them, arguing that the bank has made changes to comply with a federal electronic fund transfers law.

  • May 13, 2025

    Mortgage Lender Overcharges Service Members, Suit Says

    Mortgage lender Planet Home Lending LLC faces a proposed class action alleging that it violated the federal Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act by refusing to retroactively apply an interest rate below the act's maximum threshold during a customer's time on active duty.

  • May 13, 2025

    K&L Gates Adds Ex-Taylor Wessing Atty In London

    K&L Gates LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Taylor Wessing LLP attorney as a partner on its finance team in London.

  • May 13, 2025

    Investment Firm Drops 2 Counts From $70M Client Poach Suit

    Connecticut investment firm TJT Capital Group LLC has agreed to drop a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act count and a common-law trade secrets misappropriation claim from a lawsuit accusing a chief compliance officer of taking $70 million in assets under management with him when he left for a new job.

  • May 13, 2025

    SEC's Uyeda Encourages Opening 401(k)s To Private Assets

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Mark Uyeda said Tuesday that regulators should explore how retirement accounts could expand to include private equity investments, arguing that such a shift would put 401(k) plans on par with pension funds.

  • May 13, 2025

    Insurers Say McCarter Can't Blame NY Town In $22M Loan Suit

    Two insurers asked a Connecticut judge to nix four of McCarter & English LLP's defenses in a $22.3 million lawsuit over the firm's role in crafting loans for recreational improvements in a Long Island, New York, town, saying the firm can't blame municipal officials while defending contract and malpractice claims.

  • May 13, 2025

    Ƶ Axes Order For Toyota Unit To Pay Millions In Redress

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has quietly lifted a consent order with Toyota's U.S. financing arm, releasing it from "any alleged noncompliance" with the order — including requirements that called for it to return nearly $42 million to consumers.

  • May 13, 2025

    4 Firms Build Robinhood's $178.9M Canadian Crypto Buy

    Financial services giant Robinhood on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire Canadian cryptocurrency platform WonderFi Technologies in a CA$250 million ($179 million) take-private deal built by four law firms.

  • May 13, 2025

    Attys Invoke 5th Amendment In Mexican Bank Discovery Row

    Lawyers for a Mexican businessman told a Houston federal court that sanctions are not warranted in their response to a subpoena amid discovery by a Mexican bank, arguing their client is justified in preserving his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

  • May 13, 2025

    DOJ Criminal Division Head Dangles Self-Disclosure 'Carrot'

    The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a revised corporate enforcement policy Monday that offers companies a "clear path" to avoid criminal resolutions when they voluntarily self-disclose misconduct, a boon for American businesses that further scales back the scope of white collar enforcement under the Trump administration.

  • May 13, 2025

    Feds Want 2½ Years For Ex-Alvarez & Marsal CPA In Tax Case

    A onetime managing director at consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal should spend two-and-a-half years in prison as punishment for failing to file his personal taxes and lying on a mortgage application, prosecutors told a D.C. federal judge.

  • May 13, 2025

    Morgan Lewis Adds Ex-Dechert Registered Funds Pro In NY

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has added a registered funds specialist who previously served over 20 years with Dechert LLP as a partner in its New York office, the firm announced Tuesday.

Expert Analysis

  • Suggestions For CFTC Enforcement's New Leadership

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    The recent change in leadership at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission presents an opportunity to reflect on past practices and consider opportunities for improvement at the commission's Enforcement Division, including in observing precedent and providing greater enforcement transparency, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • How Crypto Firms Should Approach Patchwork Of State Laws

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    The Money Transmission Modernization Act was designed to create uniformity across state digital regulations, but the reality remains far from consistent — as demonstrated by the patchwork of laws in states like Texas, Vermont, New York and California — so as state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, crypto firms should watch closely for developments that could shape the regulatory landscape, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • The Current And Future State Of Bank-Fintech Partnerships

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    Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Donald Trump seems likely to cultivate an environment friendlier to the financial services industry, bank-fintech partnerships should stay devoted to proactive compliance and be ready to adapt to regulatory shifts that may intensify scrutiny from enforcers, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Opinion

    NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets

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    A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Series

    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Short-Term Predictions For The Ƶ's Fate Under Trump

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    Though the Trump administration is unlikely to succeed in abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, new leadership will likely moderate enforcement, possibly prompting state attorneys general to step up supervision, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter

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    Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let ​​​​​​​stand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.

  • What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance

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    With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently rescinding its controversial cryptocurrency accounting guidance, the industry's focus will turn to the potentially significant hurdle to crypto banking posed by the federal banking regulators, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty

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    Although recently released FAQs clarify many specific points of the 2023 expansion to the Investment Company Act's fund names rule, important questions remain about how U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff will interpret other key terms when the end-of-year compliance date arrives, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks

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    If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • Will Independent Federal Agencies Remain Independent?

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    For 90 years, members of multimember independent federal agencies have relied on the U.S. Supreme Court's 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor v. U.S. establishing the security of their positions — but as the Trump administration attempts to overturn this understanding, it is unclear how the high court will respond, says Harvey Reiter at Stinson.

  • 5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far

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    The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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