On September 30, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) announced it would extend for the fourth quarter of 2020 prohibitions on share repurchases and caps on dividends by large banks having more than $100 billion in total assets. Although the most recent stress tests affirmed large banks…
On September 14, the CFPB announced a settlement in its eighth case arising out of the CFPB’s “sweep of investigations” of mortgage companies allegedly mailing deceptive advertisements for VA-guaranteed mortgages to service members and veterans. The CFPB’s focus on protecting consumers, especially those of vulnerable populations, is in line with…
The SEC has adopted the third group of amendments to its disclosure requirements, originally proposed in August 2019 and discussed in an earlier Goodwin client alert. These amendments are the next steps as the SEC continues to update its disclosure requirements and will incrementally simplify disclosure about a company’s business, emphasizing a principle-based approach. Read…
In order to streamline its regulations, the FDIC has proposed to rescind and remove from the Code of Federal Regulations prompt corrective action rules that were transferred to the FDIC from the OTS on July 21, 2011, in connection with the implementation of Title III of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and…
On September 29, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and FDIC finalized rules to provide COVID-19-related relief on appraisals and the liquidity coverage ratio. Both rules are either identical or substantially similar to interim final rules currently in…
On August 28, the SEC amended and extended the temporary final rules adopted earlier this year that were intended to facilitate capital formation for small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary final rules will continue to provide limited, conditional relief from certain Regulation Crowdfunding requirements that relate to the timing of the…
On August 26, the SEC announced that the fees public companies and other issuers (including mutual funds) pay to register their securities with the SEC will decrease nearly 16% from $129.80 per million dollars to $109.10 per million dollars. The change will be effective this year on October 1. The fee rate…
On August 26, the SEC adopted amendments to the definition of “accredited investor” under Rules 501(a) and 215 of the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act) and adopted amendments to the “qualified institutional buyer” (QIB) definition under Rule 144A of the Securities Act. Historically, individual investors who do not meet specific income…
On August 24, the SBA issued an interim final rule revising the PPP’s owner-employee compensation rule and clarifying loan forgiveness for certain non-payroll costs. Specifically, the interim final rule exempted owner-employees with less than a 5% ownership stake in a C- or S-Corporation from the owner-employee compensation rule’s limitations on the amount…
On July 24, the Federal Reserve announced finalization of a rule that implements technical and clarifying updates to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) procedures and changes to its rules regarding disclosure of confidential supervisory information (CSI). The changes, which include clarification of terms and definitional updates, are meant to bring the…