By Jeffrey Alberts | February 29, 2024
The CFPB adopted a new intra-agency appeals process on Feb. 22, 2024. While the CFPB described its new rules as resulting from its review of revisions that other regulators have made to their intra-agency appeals processes over the past decade, the rules are most noteworthy for how they deny rights that other regulators of financial institutions provide.
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By Ross Todd | February 28, 2024
Alex Loomis, a seventh-year associate in Boston, landed a precedential First Circuit decision on personal jurisdiction issues in a case he first heard about from partner Bill Weinreb at an office Halloween party.
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By Maydeen Merino | February 23, 2024
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley, though on opposite sides ideologically, found something on which they agree.
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By Gary Itskovich and Rusty Melges | February 8, 2024
So far, 2024 is shaping up to present clearer skies for banks, specifically community banks in South Florida as domestic migration and corporate relocations to the area continue. The U.S. Census Bureau ranked Florida as number two in population growth from 2022 to 2023.
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By Maria Dinzeo | February 7, 2024
Startups will need to avoid stumbles because "you want to be putting yourself out there as a good, sophisticated and responsible founder," Fenwick & West partner Jonathan Sagot said.
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By Brad Rustin, Erin Kolmansberger, Marianna McDevitt and Lashania White | February 7, 2024
This latest action by the CFPB follows the back-and-forth seen in the prudential bank regulators relating to the imposition of overdraft fees and insufficient funds (NSF) fees. Many bankers will recall that in August 2022, the FDIC issued guidance noting that the imposition of multiple NSF fees for the same transaction "results in heightened risks of … unfair or deceptive acts or practices (UDAP)," even when fully disclosed to the customer.
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By Jay Steinman and Karina Leiter | February 6, 2024
Anticipating the fallout from potentially billions of dollars in distressed loans, lenders must be on high alert. Drawing from lessons learned in the last two historical downturns, where we witnessed unprepared lenders face severe consequences, it is imperative for lenders and financial institutions to act now.
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By Jane Wester | February 2, 2024
One defendant was arrested while trying to board a flight from JFK to Turkey, prosecutors said, and a third is still at large.
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By Colleen Murphy | February 1, 2024
A pair of lawsuits filed against JPMorgan Chase in Los Angeles and San Mateo superior courts alleged that the bank committed elder abuse by facilitating the theft of a combined $2 million from two elderly women's life savings through "pig butchering" schemes and fake Internal Revenue Service agent scams.
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By Barbara M. Goodstein and Adam C. Wolk | January 31, 2024
In their Secured Transactions column, Barbara M. Goodstein and Adam C. Wolk, discuss the Uniform Special Deposits Act. The act aims to create a set of "clear and executable" rules to govern bank deposits that involve at least two beneficiaries (one of whom may be the depositor) where "the identity of the person entitled to payment is not determined until the occurrence of a contingency identified at the time the deposit is created."
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