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3 12, 2024

FedFin on: Nonbank-Payment Provider Regulation

2024-12-03T16:48:27-05:00December 3rd, 2024|The Vault|

Continuing its efforts to advance controversial actions before the end of the Biden Administration, the CFPB has finalized proposed supervisory standards for large nonbank providers of general-use digital-payment-platform services.  The new standard brings these companies under CFPB supervision as well as regulation and enforcement actions, better aligning their governance with rules applicable to bank payment providers and addressing the Bureau’s deep concerns about digital marketing.  However, this new framework depends on voluntary compliance in anticipation of or as the result of rigorous CFPB supervision…

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25 09, 2024

FedFin on: DOJ Bank-Merger Policy

2024-09-25T15:37:45-04:00September 25th, 2024|The Vault|

In conjunction with final merger-policy statements from the FDIC and OCC, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released “commentary” expanding on how the 2023 guidelines it issued along with the Federal Trade Commission expressly apply to bank mergers.  The DOJ’s commentary and that from the other banking agencies revise merger policy last set in 1995.  However, the Fed has yet to do so or even clarify how all of these actions affect its approach beyond a statement earlier this year that the FRB was working with other agencies and a more recent answer from Vice Chair Barr that he is content with Fed policy as it stands…

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