We previously posted an article about a proposed rule that could drastically affect the courtesy overdraft services offered by many financial institutions (you can refresh your memory here). Well, the time has come. The...more
When you think about artificial intelligence (AI), does your pulse start to race? Or are you excited to embrace it, but stuck in the quagmire of often conflicting, and even alarmist, information that seems to be coming at you...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is ready and eager to make some updates to the guidelines it applies when reviewing potential bank merger transactions. This comes nearly three years after President Biden...more
As you may have heard, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a new rule that would drastically change the landscape of courtesy overdraft services offered by many large financial institutions. Under...more
The Federal Reserve recently published a whopping 118-page review of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and three days later the FDIC published a 75-page report outlining several ideas to reform our deposit insurance...more
The Federal Reserve’s long-awaited new payment system, FedNow, will be here and available to financial institutions sooner than we expected. In fact, many organizations have already been participating in the FedNow Pilot...more
In a recent interagency statement, the federal banking regulators highlighted the availability of Special Purpose Credit Programs (SPCPs) as a tool for financial institutions to expand access to credit for underserved...more