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March 06, 2025
Frank Wanted Artificial Data To Ensure $175M Deal, Jury Told
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. engineering executive on Thursday told a Manhattan federal jury that Frank founder Charlie Javice and her deputy asked him to produce artificial data for millions of purported users of the education company's services, in order to induce the bank into buying the startup for $175 million.
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March 06, 2025
Amid Court Setbacks, Trump Wants Foes To Foot Legal Bills
With judges hitting the brakes on the White House's aggressive agenda, President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to up the ante with his legal adversaries by seeking legal costs and damages if his administration ultimately prevails after initial setbacks in litigation.
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March 06, 2025
BofA Says COVID-Era Workers Too Dissimilar For Class Cert.
Proposed classes of Bank of America loan officers include too many individualized claims for certification, the bank has argued in litigation alleging the loan officers were "short-changed" as they processed emergency small business loans during the pandemic.
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March 06, 2025
'Debanking' In Crosshairs Of GOP Bill On Reputational Risk
Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled legislation that would bar federal regulators from scrutinizing for "reputational risk" in bank supervision, a measure aimed at curbing the so-called debanking of crypto firms and other politically sensitive customer categories.
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March 06, 2025
CFPB Pulls Plug On Acima Suit In Latest Enforcement Retreat
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's purge of its enforcement docket continued Thursday as the agency dropped a predatory lending lawsuit against Acima, a fintech lease-to-own company and affiliate of Rent-A-Center.
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March 06, 2025
ND High Court Nixes Greenpeace Transfer Bid In $300M Trial
The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied Greenpeace's motion to transfer venue in an ongoing $300 million defamation trial by pipeline-builder Energy Transfer out of a district where all local judges earlier recused themselves before the case finally landed in a state judge's court.
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March 06, 2025
Comerica Demands To Face Music In CFPB Suit Amid Stay Bid
Comerica Bank has urged a Texas federal judge to reject the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's request for a stay of its lawsuit accusing the bank of mismanaging a government benefit card program, arguing the delay lacks "any legal justification" and would harm the bank.
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March 06, 2025
Fintech Startup Klarna Ready For $1B IPO, Plus More Rumors
Fintech startup Klarna is readying a $1 billion initial public offering, Apollo Global Management is keen to lead a $35 billion funding package to help Meta build new data centers, and Italian fashion house Prada is near to closing a $1.6 billion deal to acquire luxury clothier Versace from Capri Holdings Ltd.
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March 06, 2025
As FDIC Walks Back Biden-Era Policies, Bank Groups Applaud
The financial services industry has welcomed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s recent moves withdrawing various rule proposals from the Biden administration, delaying the compliance deadline for another measure and proposing to rescind a policy statement on bank mergers.
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March 06, 2025
Senate Dems Press Citibank To Thaw Frozen EPA Grant Funds
A group of Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday urged Citibank to immediately release federal funding that's been frozen as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigates how a climate change grant program was run.
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March 06, 2025
Trump Tells Admin To Yank Perkins Coie Security Clearance
Perkins Coie LLP is the latest law firm to face the ire of President Donald Trump, with Trump ordering on Thursday the immediate suspension of the firm's security clearances over its diverse hiring efforts and its representation of certain political figures, including former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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March 06, 2025
Citi's Appeal Gamble Is A Loser For All, NY AG Says
New York's attorney general has urged a Manhattan federal judge to deny Citibank's bid to appeal the judge's decision allowing the state's wire transfer fraud protection case against the bank to proceed, arguing that an immediate appeal would not benefit any party, even the bank.
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March 06, 2025
Engineer Denies WSFS Contract In 40-Story Sign Crash Dispute
A Garden State engineering firm has asked a New Jersey federal judge to dismiss Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB's lawsuit after part of the bank's iconic logo sign crashed 40 stories to the ground in Philadelphia, arguing that it has no contract with the financial institution.
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March 06, 2025
Veterans Slam BofA's 'Recycled' Defense In Interest Cap Suit
Veterans have opposed Bank of America's bid to toss their proposed class claims accusing the financial giant of violating an interest cap law for military service members, arguing its "recycled" defenses were already rejected in a similar suit in the same North Carolina federal court.
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March 06, 2025
Exec Says Signature Was Forged In Case Against Pot Bank
An executive for a venture capital firm is asking an Oregon federal judge to set aside default judgments entered this week against him and his company in a suit against a defunct cannabis "neobank," saying his signature was forged on the proof of service.
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March 06, 2025
Ex-Credit Suisse Banker Avoids Prison In 'Tuna Bond' Fraud
A Brooklyn federal judge spared a former Credit Suisse banker from prison time Thursday, after he pled guilty and became a testifying government cooperator over a plot to defraud investors in a $2 billion state-backed development initiative in Mozambique.
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March 06, 2025
Bank Of England Official Warns Of US Tariff Threat
U.S. tariffs and related trade tensions could pose "substantial" risks to the U.K. and world economies, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told British lawmakers.
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March 06, 2025
Senate Panel Backs McKernan For CFPB, 3 Other Trump Picks
A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump's nomination of Jonathan McKernan to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting him up for likely confirmation to the beleaguered agency.
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March 05, 2025
Rival Cos. Called 'Empower' Agree To End TM Fight, For Now
Empower Annuity Insurance Co. of America and Empower Finance Inc. agreed to end, for now, their trademark infringement dispute over the "Empower" mark, over a year after a Colorado federal judge found customer confusion was "unlikely" in the financial services sector and refused to order Empower Finance to change its name.
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March 05, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs PNC's PTAB Win Over Mobile Banking IP
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a win PNC Bank landed at an administrative patent board against a Texas bank that is suing PNC over mobile banking technology.
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March 05, 2025
Accused Tax Prep Hacker Faces Refund Fraud Case In Boston
A Nigerian national accused of conspiring to use stolen taxpayer information and reaping $1.3 million in phony returns has been extradited to the United States to face charges of breaking into Massachusetts tax preparation firms' computer networks, Boston federal prosecutors said.
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March 05, 2025
Debt Relief Co. Entities Want CFPB Excluded From Appearing
Two entities related to financial services firm StratFS have asked a New York federal judge to reject a bid by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to continue appearing in its joint suit with a multistate coalition of attorneys general after the CFPB failed to timely file a post-hearing briefing due to changing leadership at the agency.
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March 05, 2025
US Looks For Pause In PetroSaudi $380M Seizure Suit
The United States has asked a California federal court to stay its suit to seize part of a $380 million arbitral award issued to a PetroSaudi unit, saying the civil case is up in the air because the oil producer's sole owner was convicted in August in Swiss criminal court.
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March 05, 2025
Feds Allege Vast Overseas Insider Trading Scheme
Two foreigners are facing criminal charges and civil securities fraud claims for allegedly masterminding a multinational, yearslong insider trading scheme that generated millions of dollars in illicit profits by trading on leaked information ahead of business developments.
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March 05, 2025
Black Colo. Homeowner Joins DOJ's Race Bias Refi Suit
A Denver homeowner joined the federal government in its suit accusing Rocket Mortgage LLC and other parties in Colorado federal court of deliberately undervaluing her home because she's a Black woman.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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What Financial Intermediaries Can Expect From New Admin
Understanding the current regulatory landscape of consumer financial services — and anticipating how it might evolve under Trump 2.0 — is essential for brokers, lead generators and digital platforms, and they should consider strategies for managing regulatory uncertainty, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Virginia AI Bills Could Serve As Nationwide Model
If signed into law, two Virginia bills focused on regulating the use of high-risk AI systems in the private and public sectors have the potential to influence similar legislation in other states, as well as the compliance strategies of companies operating in the commonwealth and across the U.S., say attorneys at Woods Rogers.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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What Banks Need To Know About Trump's Executive Orders
While the numerous executive orders and memos from the last few weeks don't touch on many of the issues the banking industry expected the Trump administration to address, banks still need to pay attention to the flurry of orders from strategic, compliance and operational perspectives, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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CFPB's Message To States Takes On New Weight Under Trump
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's January guidance to state enforcers has fresh significance as the Trump administration moves to freeze the bureau's work, and industry should expect states to use this series of recommendations as an enforcement road map, say attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt.
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National Bank Act Rulings Facilitate More Preemption Analysis
Two recent National Bank Act preemption decisions from an Illinois federal court and the Ninth Circuit provide the first applications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s May ruling in Cantero v. Bank of America, opening the potential for several circuit courts to address the issue this year, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
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Series
Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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Opinion
Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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A Look At Collateralized Loan Obligations Post-Reform
The Financial Stability Board's recent report on global securitization reforms, analyzing resilience trends in the collateralized loan obligation market post-2008, suggests that, while risk retention rules have a limited impact on observable characteristics, other structural features play a significant role in ensuring risk alignment, says Kos Vavelidis at DLA Piper.
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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example
Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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3 Ways Trump Can Nix SEC's Climate Disclosure Rules
Given President Donald Trump's campaign statements and agency appointments, it's likely that his administration will try to annul the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's climate disclosure rules, but his options for doing so present unique opportunities and challenges, with varying levels of permanence and impact, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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A Compliance Update For Credit Card Reward Partnerships
While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's interest in credit card rewards programs could fade under the new administration, a recent circular focusing on both issuers and their merchant partners means that co-brand credit card partnerships with banks could be subject to increased scrutiny ahead, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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Expect Scrutiny Of Banks To Persist, Even Under Trump
Although the change in administrations brings some measure of uncertainty as to the nature of bank compliance oversight, if regulators in Washington, D.C., attempt to dilute the vigilance of federal superintendence, the states are waiting in the wings to fill the void, say attorneys at Polsinelli.