5/22/2026 2:15:36 PM Protecting Your License and Your Brand: Strategies for Insurance Department Enforcement Actions By Paige Waters Stephanie O'Neill Macro Insurance regulators across the U.S. are responsible for protecting policyholders and consumers. It is therefore understandable that they...
5/22/2026 2:13:26 PM OCC Reportedly Extends CRA Examination Cycle for Well-Rated Banks with Less than $30B in Assets By Lori Sommerfield Seth Winter The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is reportedly moving to give community banks more time between examinations under the...
5/22/2026 2:12:26 PM Federal Reserve Proposes Special-Purpose "Payment Account" for Eligible Institutions By Keith Barnett James Stevens Carlin McCrory On May 20, the Federal Reserve Board issued a proposal (following a December 2025 Request for Information) to create a new,...
5/22/2026 2:10:07 PM Washington AG Settles With Cleaning Service Company By Ashley Taylor Clayton Friedman Chris Carlson Lauren Fincher Stephen Piepgrass +2 more... Show less On May 11, 2026, the Washington attorney general (AG) settled with Homeaglow Inc. d/b/a Dazzling Cleaning (Homeaglow), a cleaning service...
5/22/2026 2:08:32 PM Fraud on the Front Line: How Dealers Are Fighting Emerging Auto Finance Scams By Brooke Conkle Christopher Capurso In this episode of Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast, hosts Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso examine the evolving fraud threats...
5/22/2026 2:06:11 PM Investing in All of America Act Expands SBIC Leverage, Bonus Incentives, and Investor Base By Patrick Bianchi Christopher Rossi Michael Temple Tamer Tullgren Jackson Buday +2 more... Show less The Investing in All of America Act boosts SBIC leverage limits, expands bonus leverage for targeted investments and opens SBICs to...
5/21/2026 6:31:23 PM Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Monitor - May 21, 2026 By Troutman News Read the latest updates from Troutman Pepper Locke's State Attorneys General team. Includes: High Court on Subpoenas Creates Murky Path...
5/21/2026 6:31:16 PM CFPB's Reg B Final Rule: Disparate Impact Liability Out, Discouragement Standard Narrowed, and SPCPs in the Crosshairs By Chris Willis Lori Sommerfield Lane Page In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis, Lori Sommerfield, Taylor Gess, and Lane Page discuss the CFPB's sweeping...
5/21/2026 1:31:11 PM The Governor's Veto of Virginia's Proposed Class Action Bill: What Businesses Should Know By David Anthony Noah DiPasquale Stephen Sovinsky Allie Voehringer Leanna Minix +2 more... Show less On May 19, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) indicated that she intends to veto SB 229, a pending bill which would have created a...
5/21/2026 1:30:07 PM President Trump Orders Federal Regulators to "Break Barriers" for Fintech and Revisit Fed Access for Non-Banks By Keith Barnett Jason Cover Ethan Ostroff Lori Sommerfield Chris Willis +2 more... Show less Yesterday, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Integrating Financial Technology Innovation into Regulatory Frameworks.” The...
5/21/2026 1:27:12 PM Fourth Circuit Enjoins Maryland 'Greenwashing' Restrictions on Renewable Energy Marketing By Ashley Taylor Clayton Friedman Chris Carlson Lauren Fincher Stephen Piepgrass +2 more... Show less On May 15, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit partially blocked Maryland’s new “greenwashing” law for retail...
5/20/2026 6:34:49 PM Lessons From a Senate Insider: Legislative Strategy With Jason Smith By Stephen Piepgrass Jason Smith In this episode of Regulatory Oversight, host Stephen Piepgrass is joined by his new colleague Jason Smith, a veteran Senate lawyer and...
5/20/2026 6:34:45 PM Crypto Company Settles With New York AG Over Allegedly Misleading Crypto Yield Promotions By Ashley Taylor Clayton Friedman Chris Carlson Lauren Fincher Stephen Piepgrass +2 more... Show less The New York Attorney General’s (AG) Office announced a $5 million settlement with Uphold HQ Inc. (Uphold), a cryptocurrency platform...
5/20/2026 2:28:43 PM SEC Formally Rescinds 'No Deny' Settlement Policy and Says It Won't Enforce Existing Gag Provisions By Jay Dubow Ghillaine Reid SEC rescinds its “no deny” settlement policy and says it will not enforce existing gag provisions, reshaping the landscape for SEC...
5/20/2026 2:27:19 PM FDIC Proposes the Prudential Framework for Payment Stablecoins By Ethan Ostroff Lori Sommerfield David Madrazo On April 7, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board approved its second notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) implementing...
5/20/2026 2:26:49 PM Ninth Circuit Upholds ATF's PACT Act Authority Over Tribal Cigarette Sales By Agustin Rodriguez Nicholas Ramos Over the last couple of years, we have written about a federal case brought by the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians (the Tribe)...