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FSOC Overhauls Standards for Designating Nonbanks as Systemically Important

USA - November 7 2023 On November 3, 2023, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) released (i) a new “analytic framework” that sets forth how it will identify…

CFPB Proposes Regulatory Oversight Over BigTech and Other Providers of Digital Wallets and Payment Apps

USA - November 7 2023 On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a proposal to subject certain large digital consumer payment companies…

CFPB proposes “open banking” rule under section 1033 of Dodd-Frank

USA - October 19 2023 On October 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a long-awaited proposed rule that would require depository and nondepository…

U.S. Regional Banks Face New Long-Term Debt Requirement

USA - August 30 2023 On August 29, 2023, the U.S. federal banking regulators issued a proposal that would establish a long-term debt (LTD) requirement for large U.S…

The Regulatory Post-Mortem Reports on Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank

USA - May 2 2023 The Federal Reserve released a detailed report on the supervision and regulation of the former Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The report, released along…

Liquidity Risks from Crypto-Related Deposits

USA - February 24 2023 Recent pronouncements, speeches and guidance issued by the U.S. banking agencies have made their stance on cryptocurrency clear: digital assets may…

CFTC Delivers Notice to Ooki Via Chat Box: Important Legal Questions for DAOs

USA - December 6 2022 The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (the “Court”) recently held that a decentralized autonomous organization…

2022 UCC Amendments Relating to Digital Assets

USA - November 29 2022 In 2022, the Uniform Commercia Code (“UCC”), a uniform law in the U.S. that governs commercial transactions, was comprehensively amended by its…

Crypto and Financial Stability Risks

USA - November 3 2022 Crypto-asset regulation has been publicly in the eye of the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)—the interagency oversight body…

Web 3.0: Disruption and Regulatory Ambiguity

USA - November 3 2022 Entrepreneurs, technologists and regulators stand at the threshold of the transition to the next generation of the internet, known as Web3 or Web 3.0…