A recent guilty conviction, after a jury trial, shows how complex and fraught the zigzag path to marijuana legalization is in the payments space. At a time when the federal government has...
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI) in the financial sector has become a high priority for the U.S. financial regulators. In a rare event, five of them have joine...
Financial services regulatory reform will continue to be active in 2021, with the Biden Administration focused on activity at the intersection of financial regulation and social policy. ...
Digital dollars and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are in the spotlight, and questions abound as to the potential design, availability and functionality of a CBDC in the United St...
The Federal Reserve’s final guidance on board of directors’ effectiveness (Board Effectiveness Guidance) is a key milestone in its multi-year review of the practices of boards of dire...
There is a broad consensus that the MMF reforms adopted in the wake of the 2008 crisis have not fully achieved their intended aims. A report released by the President’s Working Group on...
This deck describes our view of the road ahead for financial regulatory reform under a Biden Presidency, and updates the deck we published shortly after the 2020 election to reflect the D...
The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 implements the most extensive revisions to anti-money laundering law since the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. The changes will affect both traditional fin...
The FDIC has issued a final rule to formalize longstanding expectations it has had for the parent company of a new industrial loan company (ILC). The FDIC adopted the proposed rule issue...
This memo summarizes the amendments to the Federal Reserve’s emergency powers, the Paycheck Protection Program, other support for small businesses, and certain other provisions included...
