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[ November 21, 2025 ] Former Wells banker wins reprieve from order resulting from sales practice misconduct case OCC
[ November 19, 2025 ] White House offers OMB staffer, with focus on environment, to become consumer bureau director CFPB
[ November 19, 2025 ] Regulator takes control of small PA credit union, citing unsafe, unsound practices NCUA
[ November 18, 2025 ] Fed’s Barr warns of ‘real dangers’ from weakened bank supervision The Fed
[ November 18, 2025 ] New ‘sharpened’ focus for Fed examiners released, signifying ‘a significant shift’ from past practices The Fed

Four sworn in to Fed Board terms; Powell’s and Brainard’s terms as chair, vice chair last into 2028 and 2026

May 23, 2022 0

Jerome. H. (“Jay”) Powell and Lael Brainard were sworn in Monday to terms as chair and vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board Monday, the Fed announced, noting also the swearing in of Lisa D. […]

Chopra nomination to CFPB likely first step in number of leadership changes ahead

January 19, 2021 0

By tapping Rohit Chopra as the intended nominee for next director of the federal consumer financial protection agency, the incoming Biden administration is signaling that changes are coming to leadership of federal financial institution regulation. […]

Former Wells banker wins reprieve from order resulting from sales practice misconduct case

November 21, 2025 0

A former Wells Fargo Bank executive has won a reprieve from a national bank regulator order earlier this year that would barred her from further financial institution service and assessed a multi-million dollar fine, the agency said Thursday. Claudia Russ [...]
White House offers OMB staffer, with focus on environment, to become consumer bureau director

November 19, 2025 0

The next leader for the federal consumer financial protection agency would be a staff member of the White House budget office – who has focused on environmental issues — if the Senate confirms the nomination, which it received Tuesday. According [...]
Regulator takes control of small PA credit union, citing unsafe, unsound practices

November 19, 2025 0

A small Pennsylvania credit union was placed into conservatorship by its federal regulator late Tuesday, which cited “unsafe and unsound practices,” the agency said. Copper & Glass Federal Credit Union in Glassport, Pa. – which has 1,255 members and assets [...]
Fed’s Barr warns of ‘real dangers’ from weakened bank supervision

November 18, 2025 0

Growing pressures to weaken bank supervision – to scale back bank examiner coverage, dilute ratings systems, and redefine “unsafe and unsound” – present “real dangers” to the American people, Federal Reserve Board Gov. Michael Barr said Tuesday. Speaking in Washington [...]
New ‘sharpened’ focus for Fed examiners released, signifying ‘a significant shift’ from past practices

November 18, 2025 0

Examiners will focus on material financial risks threatening safety and soundness of the banks they review and on taking “timely, proportionate action” to ensure the risks are “properly addressed,” the Federal Reserve said Tuesday in releasing its revamped supervisory operating [...]
Bank may pay ‘gas fees’ on blockchain networks, agency confirms in letter

November 18, 2025 0

So-called “gas fees” – or network fees – may be paid on blockchain networks, the national bank regulator said Tuesday in an interpretive letter, to facilitate “otherwise permissible activities.” The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said national [...]