Banking

  • January 14, 2025

    Justices Suggest 7th Circ. Revisit False Statement Decision

    Several U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed ready Tuesday to ask the Seventh Circuit to review a former Chicago alderman's conviction for lying about money he borrowed from a now-shuttered bank under a narrower standard, but the justices appeared skeptical that he would beat the case even with a fresh look.

  • January 14, 2025

    Steptoe Hires A&O Shearman Political Law Leader In DC

    Steptoe LLP has hired the former head of A&O Shearman's political law group, who is joining the team in Washington, D.C., as a partner to continue her practice focused on a range of white collar investigations and political law issues, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • January 14, 2025

    Apollo, Standard Chartered Form $3B Strategic Partnership

    Private equity giant Apollo and international banking group Standard Chartered PLC on Tuesday announced that they have formed a long-term strategic partnership under which the two will contribute up to a combined $3 billion to go towards clean energy and transition financing.

  • January 14, 2025

    CFPB Says Capital One Stiffed Savings Customers Out Of $2B

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday sued Capital One in Virginia federal court, alleging the bank avoided paying $2 billion in interest to customers by keeping them in a lower-yield savings account product.

  • January 13, 2025

    CFPB Eyes Rule To Rein In 'Forced' Financial Contract Terms

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday floated a new rule that calls for banning financial companies from using contractual fine print to limit consumers' legal rights or restrict their free expression.

  • January 13, 2025

    Quinn Emanuel Scoops Up SDNY Securities Fraud Chief

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced Monday that it has hired the former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's securities and commodities fraud task force as a partner in its Manhattan office.

  • January 13, 2025

    4th Circ. Backs Arbitration In BoFA's PPP Loan Suits

    The Fourth Circuit on Monday affirmed a decision ordering small businesses to arbitrate their proposed class action alleging Bank of America misled them on how to use the Paycheck Protection Program, noting the deposit agreements say an arbitrator will decide all disputes, including the scope of the arbitration provision.

  • January 13, 2025

    Feds Say Par Funding Fraud Caused $404M In Losses

    Prosecutors and defense attorneys spent hours in a marathon hearing Monday trying to convince a Pennsylvania judge of how much financial damage they thought the principals of the Par Funding merchant lending business did by allegedly fleecing investors, with the government pushing for a $404 million figure.

  • January 13, 2025

    NYDFS Launches Staff Exchange With Bank Of England

    The New York Department of Financial Services on Monday launched an international secondment program to allow the department to exchange staff with other regulators, starting with a digital assets-focused exchange with the Bank of England next month.

  • January 13, 2025

    Texas Judge Urged To Halt CFPB Medical Debt Reporting Rule

    Trade groups suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over its new rule banning medical debt from credit reports have asked a Texas federal judge to put a court-ordered hold on the measure while they proceed with their challenge to its legality.

  • January 13, 2025

    Fintech Partner Banks Face Suit Over Synapse Financial Collapse

    Banks that partnered with financial technology companies face mounting proposed class action allegations over the "inexplicable" loss of $85 million on the heels of the bankruptcy of intermediary software company Synapse Financial Technologies Inc.

  • January 13, 2025

    Shift4 To Pay SEC $750K For Undisclosed Family Payments

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said payment processing firm Shift4 Payments Inc. will pay $750,000 to settle allegations it failed to report over $4 million in payments it made to immediate family members of the company's executives and directors.

  • January 13, 2025

    Justices Seek SG Input On Private Investor Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked for the U.S. solicitor general's input on whether securities laws governing investment funds allow for a private right of action, as the high court considered weighing in on a fight between private capital investors and investment funds.

  • January 13, 2025

    AGs, Lobbyists Ask Justices To Keep Shell Co. Law Blocked

    The U.S. Supreme Court should deny the federal government's emergency application to stay a Texas district court's injunction on a law aimed at cracking down on crimes committed with shell companies, according to numerous state attorneys general and interest groups and a handful of small businesses.

  • January 13, 2025

    Sen. Warren To Grill Treasury Pick On Trump's Tax Agenda

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., plans to ask Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday about President-elect Donald Trump's tax agenda and plans for the Internal Revenue Service, according to a letter she sent the nominee.

  • January 13, 2025

    SEC To Collect $63M In Latest Recordkeeping Sweep

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that subsidiaries of Blackstone Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp. were among those swept up in the latest round of recordkeeping fines, promising to collect over $63 million from 12 firms whose employees are accused of discussing business through their personal devices.

  • January 13, 2025

    Tax-Lien Biz Atty Accused Of Duping Bank Can't Touch Money

    A Manhattan federal judge declined Monday to unfreeze assets on behalf of a former compliance lawyer accused of duping a bank into lending his tax-lien investment firm $20 million, complicating his plan to go to trial with private counsel.

  • January 13, 2025

    DOJ Litigator Who Tried Google Antitrust Case Joins Weil

    A U.S. Department of Justice attorney who was part of the government's team challenging alleged monopolization practices by Google has moved to Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the firm announced Monday.

  • January 13, 2025

    BMO Unit To Pay SEC $40M Over Bond Desk Supervision

    BMO Capital Markets has agreed to pay $40 million to end a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the broker-dealer's supervision of its mortgage-back bonds salespeople, with the SEC saying Monday that the brokerage firm failed to stop employees from providing inaccurate information about the bonds.

  • January 10, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Porn ID Check & Retiree Discrimination

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday for a full argument session, in which the justices will debate whether a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify their visitors aren't minors violates the First Amendment and if retirees have the right to sue former employers for benefits discrimination. 

  • January 10, 2025

    FDIC's Hill Calls For 'New Direction' In Preview Of Agenda

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Travis Hill signaled Friday that he intends to steer the agency in a "new direction" when he takes over as its acting chief later this month, mapping out plans for a more tech-friendly, lighter-touch approach.

  • January 10, 2025

    Fla. Bank Sues Cargill Over $18M In Fraudulent Transfers

    A Florida bank is suing food company Cargill Inc. over more than $18 million in transfers the bank thought were going to a Miami-based coffee company with which it had a credit agreement and that was in a precarious financial position after suffering "catastrophic" losses trading in the coffee market.

  • January 10, 2025

    CFPB Floats Protections For Crypto, Video Game Payments

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed to make clear that cryptocurrency and video game transactions are covered under existing rules codifying consumers' rights in situations of fraudulent transfers, hacks and stolen funds.

  • January 10, 2025

    Justices To Review Block On Expanded Student Loan Benefits

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review the Fifth Circuit's block on expanded benefits under a federal program that forgives student loans for borrowers defrauded by higher education institutes.

  • January 10, 2025

    Ga. Law Firm Latest To Fight Corporate Transparency Act

    A federal law designed to combat money laundering violates the U.S. Constitution by forcing lawyers to disregard attorney-client privilege, a Georgia lawyer told a federal court, joining a chorus seeking legal action to stop the law.

Expert Analysis

  • 5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond

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    In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.

  • What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads

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    Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act’s validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.

  • Preparing For Mexican Drug Cartels' Terrorist Designation

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    In the event President-elect Donald Trump designates Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, businesses will need to consider how their particular industry is affected and evaluate previously legitimate practices given the cartels' involvement so many sectors of the economy, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • UBS Ruling Shows SDNY's Pro-Award Confirmation Stance

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    A New York federal court's recent ruling upholding an arbitration award in Lakah v. UBS, a long-running dispute over a bond debt default, serves as a reminder that New York courts carry a strong presumption toward binding parties to arbitration agreements and enforcing arbitral awards, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • Where Payments Law And Regulation Are Headed In 2025

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    The Trump administration will likely bring significant changes to payments regulations in 2025, but maintaining internal compliance efforts in the absence of robust federal oversight will remain key as state authorities and private plaintiffs step into the breach, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • How Decline Of Deference Will Affect Trump Policymaking

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    An administrative law regime without Chevron deference may limit the Trump administration’s ability to implement new policies in the short term, but ultimately help it in the long term, and all parties with an interest in regulatory changes will have to take a fresh approach to litigation, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Series

    Ohio Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4

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    Ohio's banking and financial services sector saw several significant developments in the fourth quarter of 2024, including a landmark Uniform Commercial Code ruling, adjustments to the state's Homebuyer Plus Program and the launch of the state's first women-led bank, says attorney Alex Durst.

  • National Trust Bank Charter Can Widen Reach Of Fintech Cos.

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    U.S. fintech companies that want to expand nationwide are at a competitive disadvantage with foreign companies, which can much more easily branch into the U.S., but setting up a national trust bank charter could offer a path forward, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • 6 Predictions For Cyber Risk And Insurance In 2025

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    This year is likely to bring with it some thorny and expensive cyber challenges, including increased ransomware activity, more data breach class actions and continued efforts to define business interruption loss calculations, say attorneys at Wiley.

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    Illinois Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4

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    While the last quarter of 2024 didn't bring any notable state financial legislation, Illinois banks did see developments in the challenge to the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, and received some awaited guidance on credit line disclosures and bank-fintech relationships, say attorneys at Dykema.

  • 7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring

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    President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.

  • How Trump 2.0 May Change Business In Latin America

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    Companies in Latin America should expect to face more trade restrictions, tighter economic sanctions and enhanced corruption risks, as the incoming administration shifts focus to certain non-U.S. actors, most notably China, says Matteson Ellis at Miller & Chevalier.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection

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    Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Impact Of Successful Challenges To SEC's Rulemaking Ability

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    In 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission faced significant legal challenges to its aggressive rulemaking agenda as several of its rules were vacated by the Fifth Circuit, which could hinder the SEC's ability to enact rules extending beyond express statutory authority in the future, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4

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    In 2024's final quarter, the New York State Department of Financial Services published guidance on mitigating the rising cybersecurity risks of artificial intelligence and remote technology workers with North Korean ties, and the state attorney general launched an antitrust investigation into Capital One's proposed Discover merger, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

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