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March 28, 2025
Startup Founder Guilty In $175M JPMorgan Deal Gone Awry
A Manhattan federal jury on Friday convicted Frank founder Charlie Javice and another former executive of the educational startup of tricking JPMorgan Chase & Co. into spending $175 million to buy the now-shuttered company by lying about its user base.
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March 28, 2025
Protego Says Texas Firm Broke $200M Crypto Bank Promise
Protego Holdings Corp. said a Texas-based firm promised to invest $200 million in its launch of a cryptocurrency bank but delivered only excuses as the funding failed to materialize and a rare conditional approval from the U.S. government lapsed when financing wasn't in place.
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March 28, 2025
Bank Regulators Will Seek To Rescind Biden-Era CRA Rules
Federal banking regulators said Friday that they plan to roll back Biden-era rules intended to increase bank lending in underserved areas, a pivot that comes after they had previously defended the rules amid a banking industry legal challenge.
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March 28, 2025
DOGE Officials Arrive At SEC With Unclear Agenda
Staffers with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have made the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the latest target of their cost-cutting measures, as the agency confirmed Friday that it has begun onboarding DOGE staff.
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March 27, 2025
Trump Targets National Security Workers' Bargaining Rights
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order ending collective bargaining with unions representing workers at a number of agencies "with national security missions," saying that allowing the workers to bargain is "dangerous" in agencies with such responsibilities.
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March 27, 2025
Chase Sued Over Alleged Political 'Debanking' Of Fla. Biz
A Florida company alleged in a suit on Thursday that JPMorgan Chase Bank is unlawfully blocking payments the company is trying to make to a manufacturer based on "wholly unsubstantiated and false" claims that the company's leader has Russian mafia ties and participated in interference of the 2016 presidential election.
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March 27, 2025
Pulled CFPB Amicus 'Irrelevant' To Citibank Case, NY AG Says
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's move to withdraw a Biden-era brief backing New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit over Citibank NA's handling of online wire fraud is "irrelevant to any matter currently pending before this court," James' office told a federal court Thursday.
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March 27, 2025
Upstart Investors Land Class Cert. In Insider Selling Suit
Shareholders who allege that tech-based lender Upstart and its executives participated in a $2.7 billion insider stock selling scheme can now proceed with their claims as a class, an Ohio federal judge determined on Thursday.
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March 27, 2025
Fintech Group Reups Bid to Defend CFPB Open Banking Rule
A fintech trade group has renewed its request to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's open banking rule from a challenge launched by a group of banks after the parties in the suit agreed to pause the suit to give the CFPB's new leadership time to review what it wants to do with the Biden-era measure.
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March 27, 2025
FTC Reaches $17M Settlement With Online Cash Advance Co.
The Federal Trade Commission settled its false advertisement suit in New York federal court against online cash advance company Cleo AI Inc. for $17 million, according to a proposed settlement order posted on the FTC's website Thursday.
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March 27, 2025
Umpqua Bank Strikes Deal With Investors In $300M Ponzi Suit
Umpqua Bank and a class of investors on Thursday informed a California federal judge they've reached a settlement to resolve claims the bank helped execute an alleged $300 million Ponzi scheme led by a since-deceased real estate investment manager.
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March 27, 2025
Target Settles Antitrust Claims Against Visa Over Swipe Fees
Target Corp. and Visa have settled a yearslong antitrust dispute accusing the card company of being part of an illegal anticompetitive scheme that forced merchants to pay excessive fees when customers pay with credit or debit cards, according to a stipulation filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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March 27, 2025
PayPal Investors Drop Derivative Suit Over SEC, CFPB Probes
Shareholders of PayPal voluntarily dismissed their derivative suit against the company's executives and directors accusing them of making false statements about PayPal's practices that allegedly led to federal investigations, saying the dismissal is proper since the defendants were not liable in a similar securities class action filed against them.
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March 27, 2025
CFPB Says It Will Scrap Buy Now, Pay Later Policy
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will withdraw guidance that asserted buy-now, pay-later products were subject to some of the same federal safeguards as traditional credit cards, the regulator said in a court filing in a suit challenging the interpretive rule.
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March 27, 2025
SEC Drops Defense Of Biden-Era Climate Disclosure Rules
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it would no longer defend regulations requiring some of the world's largest corporations to publicly disclose the effects climate change could have on their businesses, walking away from an Eighth Circuit challenge to the rules that the agency's acting chair called "unnecessarily intrusive."
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March 27, 2025
Atkins Suggests He May Open SEC's Doors To DOGE
Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Thursday appeared to welcome the potential arrival of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency at the agency, while also pushing back on suggestions that his earlier votes as a Republican commissioner exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis.
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March 27, 2025
Senate Backs Bid To Nullify CFPB Overdraft Rule
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule aimed at limiting overdraft fees at large banks to $5, passing a Republican-backed measure whose U.S. House companion now awaits a vote.
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March 27, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Stay Injunction Compelling Fed. Worker Rehire
A split Ninth Circuit panel has refused to block an injunction compelling the Trump administration to reinstate about 16,000 probationary employees to six federal agencies, saying the administration will likely lose its argument that the agencies weren't acting on an order from above when they fired the workers.
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March 27, 2025
FCPA 'Purgatory' Frustrates White Collar Bar, Anxious Clients
An abrupt pause in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement has created tension between clients eager to resolve investigations and their attorneys, who are having trouble reaching decision-makers at the U.S. Department of Justice and are more inclined to await further guidance from the government.
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March 26, 2025
CFPB Moves To Rip Up Settlement Of 'Radical' Redlining Case
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked Wednesday for an Illinois federal judge to throw out its recent settlement of a redlining lawsuit that was filed during the first Trump administration, a case the agency's new chief is now denouncing as unjust and wrong.
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March 26, 2025
Musk, DOGE Get DC Circ. To Pause Discovery Order
The D.C. Circuit on Wednesday temporarily halted a lower court's order requiring Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to hand over evidence that more than a dozen states said could give insight into Musk's and DOGE's allegedly unconstitutional authority, saying the "stringent requirements" for a stay had been met.
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March 26, 2025
Feds Led Jury Astray About $175M JPMorgan Deal, Javice Says
A lawyer for Frank founder Charlie Javice on Wednesday told a Manhattan federal jury that prosecutors have spent weeks misleading them about evidence purporting to show that she conned JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the now-defunct educational startup for $175 million, based on false information.
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March 26, 2025
Sotomayor Urges Caution On Nondelegation Doctrine Revamp
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.
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March 26, 2025
Republicans Stump For CFPB Overhaul As Democrats Balk
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee sought Wednesday to boost legislation aimed at reining in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, proposals that Democrats slammed as out of touch when the agency is already facing evisceration.
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March 26, 2025
Supreme Court Skeptical Of Nixing FCC Subsidy Fund
Conservative justices took aim Wednesday at rising costs in the country's multibillion-dollar phone and broadband subsidy system, questioning whether lawmakers put meaningful limits on the program's growth, but some argued the fund works just like others created by Congress that rely on revenues from industry fees.
Expert Analysis
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During Financial Regulatory Uncertainty, Slow Down And Wait
Amid the upheaval at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the slowdown in activity at the prudential agencies, banks must exercise patience before adopting strategic and tactical plans, as well as closely monitor legal and regulatory developments concerning all the federal financial regulators, say attorneys at Dorsey.
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4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy
This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.
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Why A Rare SEC Dismissal May Not Reflect A New Approach
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's pending dismissal of its case against Silver Point is remarkable to the extent that it reflects a novel repudiation of a decision made during the prior commission, a deeper look suggests it may not represent a shift in policy approach, say attorneys at Weil.
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Deficiency Trends In National Futures Association Exams
A recent notice from the National Futures Association outlining the most common deficiencies uncovered during exams gives member firms an opportunity to review prior guidance, particularly regarding the hot topic of implementing procedures governing the use of outsourced service providers, say attorneys at Akin.
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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A Closer Look At Money Laundering Sentencing Issues
Federal money laundering cases are on the rise, often involving lengthy prison sentences for defendants who have little to no criminal history, but a closer look at the statistics and case law reveal some potentially valuable arguments that defense attorneys should keep in their arsenal, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.
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Why NY May Want To Reconsider Its LLC Transparency Law
Against the backdrop of the myriad challenges to the federal Corporate Transparency Act, it may be prudent for New York to reconsider its adoption of the LLC Transparency Act, since it's unclear whether the Empire State's "baby-CTA" statute is still necessary or was passed prematurely, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Pleading Rules At Stake In High Court Hamas Banking Case
While a case between victims of Hamas terrorist attacks and a Lebanese bank, recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, appears to ask a narrow question of which civil procedure rules apply to requests to reopen final judgments, how the justices rule could drastically change pleading strategies for future plaintiffs, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.
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Expectations For SEC Exams As Private Credit Market Grows
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may rely heavily on its Division of Examinations for regulating private credit markets amid their expansion into the retail investor space, so investment advisers should be prepared to address several likely areas of focus when confronted with an exam, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Considerations As Trump Admin Continues To Curtail CFPB
Recent sweeping moves from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leadership have signaled a major shift in the agency's trajectory, and regulated entities should prepare for broader implications in both the near and long term, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Cos. Should Prepare For Mexican Payments Surveillance Tool
The recent designation of six Mexican cartels as "specially designated global terrorists" will allow the Treasury Department to scrutinize nearly any Mexico-related payment through its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program — a rigorous evaluation for which even sophisticated sanctions compliance programs are not prepared, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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What's Potentially In Store For CFTC Under New Leadership
Under the leadership of acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Caroline Pham, and with the nomination of former commissioner Brian Quintenz to serve as permanent chair, the commission is set to widely embrace digital assets and event contracts, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Revived Executive Order Is A Deregulatory Boon To Banks
A recently reinstated 2019 executive order reveals the Trump administration’s willingness to provide unprecedented protections for regulated parties — including financial institutions — but to claim them, banks and other entities must adopt a forward-leaning posture to work with the regulators, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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2 Practical Ways For Banks To Battle Elder Financial Abuse
Federal regulators' recent statement raising awareness of elder financial exploitation provides a useful catalog of techniques that banks can employ to fight fraud, particularly encouraging older account holders to establish trusted contacts and sharing timely warnings about the latest scams with customers, say attorneys at Nutter.