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  • September 21, 2026

    Homeowners Say Home Equity Co. Sells Predatory Products

    A proposed class of North Carolina homeowners claimed in a federal lawsuit that Unison Agreement Corp. and related companies locked them into predatory, usurious and misleading home equity sharing agreements.

  • September 21, 2026

    A Look At Litigation Risks From Financing The AI Buildout

    Artificial intelligence infrastructure financing can create gaps between accounting presentation and project-level economic exposure, and those gaps may affect management communications and how accounting experts can reconstruct the financial record when those communications become the subject of a securities dispute, says Erik Johannesson at Brattle Group.

  • September 21, 2026

    For Faster FDIC Review, Banks Must Front-Load Prep

    Banks seeking to benefit from the efficiency promised by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s new two-phase review of deposit insurance applications must prioritize filing comprehensive submissions or risk the fate of applicants recently rejected by the Comptroller of the Currency, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • September 18, 2026

    3rd Circ. Says SBA Can Deny Excess PPP Loan Forgiveness

    A New Jersey car dealership that exceeded the federal limit on Paycheck Protection Program loans early in the COVID-19 pandemic is not entitled to partial loan forgiveness, the Third Circuit ruled Friday, holding that the Small Business Administration acted within its authority when it denied the company's relief bid.

  • September 18, 2026

    Fed 'Risk Aversion' Contributed To SVB's Failure, Report Says

    A "culture of risk aversion" and diffusion of decision-making among Federal Reserve supervisory staff, not deregulation or social media chatter, contributed to the 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, according to initial findings from a new post-mortem review.

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