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[ October 29, 2025 ] CFPB rescinds rule on nonbank persons registry, withdraws proposal on firms using form contracts; more CFPB
[ October 28, 2025 ] CFPB: FCRA’s state-law preemption on credit reporting broader than held in 2022 CFPB
[ October 27, 2025 ] OCC wants to rescind guidelines for big banks on recovery planning; says banks ‘should’ be doing it anyway OCC
[ October 27, 2025 ] Comptroller jumps on stress-test reform bandwagon, praising Fed request for comment OCC
[ October 24, 2025 ] Fed opens stress tests to public comment, citing need for transparency, public accountability The Fed

FDIC deploys reg relief for banks in CA areas ripped by wildfires, winds

January 13, 2025 0

Financial institutions can get relief from some reporting and publishing requirements, and seek permission to set up temporary facilities, from the San Francisco regional office of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) as they deal […]

FDIC announces relief available for institutions affected by CA wildfires, Hurricane Delta

October 23, 2020 0

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) has deployed its regulatory relief measures to help institutions deal with the fallout from Hurricane Delta in Louisiana and the wildfires that have plagued areas of California since early […]

CFPB rescinds rule on nonbank persons registry, withdraws proposal on firms using form contracts; more

October 29, 2025 0

Nonbank “covered persons” who are subject to court or government agency’s final public orders related to offering or providing consumer financial products or services no longer need to get themselves on a registry maintained by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [...]
CFPB: FCRA’s state-law preemption on credit reporting broader than held in 2022

October 28, 2025 0

The Fair Credit Reporting Act’s (FCRA) preemption of state laws related to consumer credit reporting is broader than presented in a now-rescinded 2022 interpretive rule, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says. The CFPB, in a new interpretive rule published [...]
OCC wants to rescind guidelines for big banks on recovery planning; says banks ‘should’ be doing it anyway

October 27, 2025 0

Big banks – those with at least $100 billion in assets – are expected to be well managed and have appropriate risk-management processes in place; thus, no guidelines on “recovery planning” are necessary, the national bank regulator proposed late Monday. [...]
Comptroller jumps on stress-test reform bandwagon, praising Fed request for comment

October 27, 2025 0

Calling the current stress-test regime for large banks “too complex and opaque,” the national bank regulator late Monday praised the Federal Reserve for proposing changes to the stress test models. Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould said the Fed’s [...]