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May 30, 2025
ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Will Settle FirstCash Military Lending Suit
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a leading U.S. pawn store operator announced together that they had agreed to settle the agency's suit alleging that the operator ran afoul of military lending laws, filing a joint status report announcing settlement.
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May 30, 2025
OFAC Sanctions Philippine Biz, Alleging Role In Cyber Scams
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a Philippines-based technology company for allegedly providing computer infrastructure to "hundreds of thousands" of websites involved in virtual currency scams, according to a statement.
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May 30, 2025
Trump Admin To Defend Biden's For-Profit College Loan Rule
The Trump administration will defend parts of a Biden-era U.S. Department of Education rule allowing students to have their federal loans forgiven over their college's misconduct, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to resume briefing in a case that will pit the administration against the for-profit college industry.
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May 30, 2025
3rd Circ. Preview: Tribal Immunity Limits On Deck For June
The Third Circuit's June argument lineup will find a finance company fighting a proposed class action over allegedly predatory payday loan fees because of its tribal ties, while a plumbing company argues that it does not have to arbitrate a union grievance.
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May 29, 2025
Alston & Bird, Smith Mackinnon Steer $710M Fla. Bank Deal
The holding company for Seacoast National Bank said Thursday that it would acquire Villages Bancorporation Inc., the holding company of Citizens First Bank based in The Villages, Florida, for approximately $710 million in a deal guided by Alston & Bird LLP and Smith Mackinnon PA.
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May 29, 2025
House Introduces CFTC-Focused Crypto Market Structure Bill
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a long-awaited proposal to regulate crypto markets on Thursday that would establish a registration path at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and codify the boundaries of jurisdiction between commodities and securities regulators.
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May 29, 2025
Baltimore Drops ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Suit Amid Denials Of Defunding Plan
The city of Baltimore on Thursday moved to drop its lawsuit seeking to bar Trump administration officials from stripping unused funds from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, calling off the case while preserving the right to refile later.
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May 29, 2025
Simpson Thacher, Skadden, Mayer Brown Guide $4B Rail Deal
Wells Fargo, represented by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, unveiled Thursday a $4.4 billion deal to sell its rail assets to a joint venture formed between Mayer Brown LLP-led GATX and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, which is advised by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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May 29, 2025
2nd Circ. Upholds KeyBank Adviser's $1.1M Defamation Win
The Second Circuit on Thursday upheld a $1.1 million award against a brokerage firm accused of making defamatory remarks about a former employee, ruling that Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitrators did not disregard the law in handing down the punishment.
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May 29, 2025
Judge Challenges Visa's Bid To Dismiss DOJ Antitrust Suit
A New York federal judge on Thursday questioned whether Visa Inc. is inappropriately raising factual disputes in its motion to dismiss U.S. Justice Department claims that the company has illegally maintained a monopoly in the market for debit card networks.
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May 29, 2025
11th Circ. Won't Revive Antitrust Claims Against Suns Owner
The Eleventh Circuit isn't going to touch a lower court order that tossed an antitrust case against the owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns and his company, United Wholesale Mortgage LLC, over an alleged boycott.
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May 29, 2025
Judge Tells FDIC 'Whistleblower' To Stop Texting Gov't Attys
A D.C. federal judge threatened a self-proclaimed Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. "whistleblower" with criminal referral if he reaches out to the agency's lawyers again, calling his claim that one attorney was trying to frame him with sending "harassing" messages sent to the attorney's wife "patently ridiculous."
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May 29, 2025
Wells Fargo Settles Suit Over Online Wire Fraud Protections
Wells Fargo has settled a proposed class action alleging it failed to properly investigate and reimburse mobile banking customers who reported scammers stole money from their accounts through fraudulent wire transfers, according to a notice filed Wednesday in California federal court.Â
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May 29, 2025
Javice Request To Sink Guilty Verdict Turned Aside By Judge
A Manhattan federal judge declined on Thursday to toss a verdict convicting Frank founder Charlie Javice of tricking JPMorgan Chase into buying the student aid startup for $175 million, saying he properly declined to sever her trial from that of her co-defendant.
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May 29, 2025
Japan's NTT Docomo Launches Offer Valuing Bank At $5.1B
NTT Docomo, the mobile unit of Japanese telecom giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, on Thursday announced a tender offer to acquire shares of SBI Sumishin Net Bank Ltd., valuing the online bank at approximately 739 billion yen ($5.1 billion).
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May 29, 2025
Ex-Goldman Partner, Star Witness In 1MDB Trial, Gets 2 Years
Former Goldman Sachs partner and star 1MDB prosecution witness Tim Leissner was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for his role in a global conspiracy to siphon more than $2.7 billion for bribes and kickbacks from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund in order to facilitate Goldman-backed bond deals.
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May 29, 2025
South Korean Insurer Sues To Enforce $14M Judgment In NY
The Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. has urged a New York federal court to recognize and enforce a $14.4 million judgment it secured in South Korea against a man who defaulted on a bank loan.
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May 28, 2025
Fintech Group Warns Remittance Tax Will Hurt Consumers
The American Fintech Council sent a letter to members of Congress asking them to reconsider a proposed tax on remittances that is a part of the $3.8 trillion bill to extend and make permanent the Republican Party's 2017 tax overhaul law, also known as The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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May 28, 2025
FBI Misled Court In Russia Sanctions Probe, Judge Rules
Federal prosecutors cannot use certain evidence to prove charges that a Russian bank executive dodged sanctions because an FBI agent "recklessly omitted material facts" from the related warrant application, a New York federal judge ruled.
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May 28, 2025
Share Control Key To Archegos Suits, 2nd Circ. Suggests
Whether a raft of lawsuits can be restored against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC may depend in part on how the law defines and treats a controlling shareholder, a panel of the Second Circuit suggested Wednesday as a group of investors tried to save their securities fraud claims arising from the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP.
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May 28, 2025
High Court's Bid To Save Fed Independence May Backfire
The U.S. Supreme Court has signaled it may expand President Donald Trump's power to summarily fire independent agency officials while keeping the Federal Reserve in a league of its own, but legal experts say that carveout may still leave the central bank's independence on shaky ground.
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May 28, 2025
ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Energy Loan Rule An 'Unlawful Power Grab,' Suit Says
Lenders that finance clean energy home improvement projects on Wednesday challenged a Biden-era rule that applies standard mortgage protections to loans where homeowners pay for such projects through property tax bills, saying the rule is unlawful and threatens to kill their business.
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May 28, 2025
Sens. Urge Treasury To Rescind Ownership Reporting Rule
A bipartisan duo from the Senate Finance Committee has urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to fully implement the Corporate Transparency Act, criticizing an interim final rule that exempts domestic businesses from contested reporting regulations.
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May 28, 2025
DOL Tells 5th Circ. It Will Craft New ESG Rule For 401(k) Plans
The U.S. Department of Labor told the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday that it will launch new rulemaking and move "as expeditiously as possible" to replace Biden administration regulations on whether fiduciaries can consider issues like climate change and social justice when choosing retirement plan investments.
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May 28, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Credit One Win In FCRA Investigation Suit
The Second Circuit on Wednesday declined to revive a New York woman's lawsuit against Credit One Bank for allegedly failing to investigate identity theft claims against her mother, with a panel agreeing with the lower court that no reasonable investigation required under federal law conducted by the bank would have yielded different results.
Expert Analysis
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Web Tracking Ruling Signals Potential Broadening Of CCPA
The Northern District of California's recent decision in Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp. is notable, as it signals a potential broadening of the California Consumer Privacy Act's private right of action beyond data breaches to unauthorized, nonbreach disclosures involving the use of now-ubiquitous tracking technologies, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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Breaking Down 4th Circ. 'Actual Knowledge' Ruling For Banks
A recent decision from the Fourth Circuit finding that banks must have "actual knowledge" to be found liable for losses arising from an automated clearinghouse transfer warns that the more financial institutions know about a name mismatch issue for any particular transaction, the more liability they may face, say attorneys at Katten.
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Strategies To Limit Inherent Damage Of Multidefendant Trials
As shown by the recent fraud convictions of two executives at the now-shuttered education startup Frank, multidefendant criminal trials pose unique obstacles, but with some planning, defense counsel can mitigate the harm and maximize the chances of a good outcome, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.
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Russia Sanctions Spotlight: Divergent Approaches Emerge
With indications of greater divergence and uncertainty in Russia sanctions policy between the U.K., European Union and U.S., there are four general principles and a range of compliance steps that businesses should bear in mind when assessing the impact of a potentially shifting landscape, says Alexandra Melia at Steptoe.
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CFTC Memos Clarify When 'Sorry' Still Gets You Subpoenaed
A pair of Commodity Futures Trading Commission advisories released in February and April open a new path to self-reporting but emphasize that serious breaches still warrant a trip to the penalty box, prompting firms to weigh whether — and how — to disclose potential violations in the future, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.
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Reassessing Corporate Separateness After Explosion Of LLCs
Following the dramatic increase of limited liability companies in the U.S., the Corporate Transparency Act's enactment and the Trump administration's subsequent narrowing of that law, it's worth revisiting the underlying legal principles that govern shell companies in order to remedy the problems that initially motivated the CTA, says Jeff Newton at Omni Bridgeway.
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What Banks Should Note As Regulators Plan To Nix CRA Rule
While federal bank regulators’ recently announced intent to rescind a Biden-era Community Reinvestment Act final rule will loosen the framework for evaluating banks’ lending, service and investing activities, the decision means industry innovations and changes will remain unaddressed, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.
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Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
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ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Vacatur Bid Sheds Light On Agency Decision-Making
While the ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ's joint motion to vacate the settlement it reached with Townstone Financial last year won't affect precedent on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's scope, it serves as a road map to ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ decisional processes and provides insight into how other regulators make similar decisions, says Jason McElroy at Saul Ewing.
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The Potential Efficiencies, Risks Of Folding PCAOB Into SEC
Integrating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission offers the potential for regulatory efficiencies, as well as a more streamlined and consistent enforcement approach, but it also presents constitutional and operational uncertainties, say attorneys at Hilgers Graben.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw
While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.
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Reviewing Trump Admin's Rapid Pro-Crypto Regulatory Pivot
The digital asset industry has received a boost from the explicitly pro-crypto Trump administration, which in its first few months reversed Biden-era rules and installed industry proponents at regulatory agencies, marking one of the biggest regulatory about-faces by a government in recent memory, says Robert Appleton at Olshan Frome.
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Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them
Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.