/banking?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Banking Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:55:18 +0000 /banking/articles/2396867?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396867 Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's structured finance and derivatives practice to co-lead its structured finance team, as well as two of his colleagues. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:46:25 +0000 /banking/articles/2393763?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2393763 The Federal Reserve Bank's recently ended crypto supervisory program headlines other recent federal actions from Congress, the White House and relevant agencies that may complicate financial institutions' digital-asset use and attendant compliance strategies, say attorneys at Buchalter. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:33:41 +0000 /banking/articles/2396863?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396863 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said Tuesday that he hopes that moving quickly to adopt new rules deregulating the public and private markets will "future-proof" his agenda against potential tampering by succeeding presidential administrations. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:38:41 +0000 /banking/articles/2396936?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396936 Federal banking regulators on Tuesday unveiled a pair of proposed curbs on their supervision programs that would formally ban the use of reputation risk as an exam factor and constrain what examiners can call out for criticism as an "unsafe or unsound" practice. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:21:29 +0000 /banking/articles/2394427?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2394427 Antitrust litigation increasingly includes claims for breach of warranty, product liability or state consumer protection violations, complicating insurers' reliance on exclusions as courts analyze whether these are antitrust claims in disguise, says Jameson Pasek at Caldwell Law. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:20:12 +0000 /banking/articles/2396551?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396551 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to undo a precedential Second Circuit decision finding that Sberbank of Russia must face Anti-Terrorism Act litigation related to the 2014 downing of a commercial airliner over eastern Ukraine, rejecting the bank's argument it is entitled to sovereign immunity. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:12:15 +0000 /banking/articles/2396484?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396484 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency moved Monday to ease its oversight of banks with under $30 billion in assets, rolling out policy changes that include cutting back on their exam requirements and potentially expanding their access to expedited licensing options. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:27:11 +0000 /banking/articles/2396628?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396628 The broker-dealer unit of Synovus Financial Corp. will pay $315,000 to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims that a records review oversight prevented the firm from spotting an emerging "pattern of forging and falsifying customer electronic signatures" at one of its branches. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:46:37 +0000 /banking/articles/2396247?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396247 A Michigan federal judge found a businessman altered promissory notes worth $150 million to thwart efforts to collect on a separate judgment against him and his auto parts business, but he ruled the notes are unenforceable because they were issued when the company was insolvent. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:39:37 +0000 /banking/articles/2396417?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396417 UBS Financial Services has secured a preliminary injunction blocking former UBS advisers from soliciting the firm's account holders while a suit accusing the representatives of violating nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreements proceeds. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:16:52 +0000 /banking/articles/2396603?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396603 A decade-old suit accusing Morgan Stanley of discriminating against its African American financial advisers and depriving them of lucrative opportunities has come to a close after the final plaintiff reached a settlement with the financial institution. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:03:14 +0000 /banking/articles/2396499?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396499 The city of Baltimore has sued MoneyLion in Maryland state court, accusing the fintech company of violating local consumer protection laws by disguising high-interest payday loans as "Instacash Advances" and trapping low-income residents in cycles of debt through excessive fees and "tips." Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:06:46 +0000 /banking/articles/2395437?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2395437 Opportunity Financial is looking to close the book on California's banking regulator's claims that it illegally evaded the state's interest rate caps through a sham lending partnership with an out-of-state bank, arguing in a summary judgment bid that its Utah partner, FinWise Bank, is the lawful lender and therefore exempt from California's rate limits. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:03:29 +0000 /banking/articles/2396406?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396406 Crypto exchange Coinbase is seeking a national trust company charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to expand its custody business and related services, joining a growing number of digital asset firms pursuing federal bank charters. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:07:19 +0000 /banking/articles/2392679?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2392679 With regulatory clarity improving and insurance carriers taking an increasingly constructive approach, crypto industry participants can improve their insurance coverage and pricing if finance, legal and compliance teams take specific steps, say Walker Newell and Jacob Sawyer at Woodruff-Sawyer. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:59:58 +0000 /banking/articles/2396531?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396531 Last week, the owner of the Kentucky Derby was hit with a suit accusing it of withholding escrow funds for environmental compliance violations owed under a 2022 deal with hospitality company Enchantment Holdings LLC. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:30:38 +0000 /banking/articles/2392558?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2392558 In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:16:31 +0000 /banking/articles/2393603?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2393603 The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent seizure of meth precursor chemicals en route from China to Mexico illustrates the U.S. government's powerful jurisdictional reach to seek forfeiture of cartel-related assets, and company compliance programs must take note, say attorneys at White & Case. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:05:18 +0000 /banking/articles/2395033?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2395033 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider whether DuPont heirs should be held liable for alleged Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations for inadequately funding a now-insolvent trust established in 1947 by their grandmother to pay them and their workers retirement benefits. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:00:03 +0000 /banking/articles/2396208?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /banking/articles/2396208 Fifth Third Bancorp and Comerica Inc. announced Monday that Fifth Third will acquire Comerica in an all‑stock transaction valued at $10.9 billion.