Banking

  • September 18, 2025

    PNC Accused Of Sharing Site Users' Private Info With LinkedIn

    A proposed class action claims PNC Financial Services violated the privacy of visitors to its website by tracking their browsing and sharing that information with social network LinkedIn, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania state court.

  • September 18, 2025

    5th Circ. Won't Rehear Crypto Exec's IRS Summons Case

    The Fifth Circuit stood by its decision not to quash an IRS summons for a cryptocurrency executive's bank records, rejecting his request to reconsider its finding that he must wait until the federal government decides whether to bring legal proceedings against him before challenging a lower court's ruling.

  • September 18, 2025

    Trump Asks High Court To Let Him Remove Fed's Cook

    President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to allow him to move forward with firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, escalating a fight over presidential removal power that will test the boundaries of the central bank's traditional independence.

  • September 18, 2025

    Bonds Valid Under Venezuelan Law, Judge Rules In $2B Case

    A New York federal judge on Thursday denied a bid by Venezuela's state-owned oil company to refuse enforcement of some $2 billion in defaulted bonds, finding after an "exhaustive review of Venezuelan law" that the bonds were validly issued.

  • September 17, 2025

    Litigation Spending To Keep Growing As Biz Risks Run High

    Companies are likely to increase their spending on litigation next year, some by over 10%, as legal disputes become more complex, more contentious and more high-stakes, according to a new report out Thursday.

  • September 17, 2025

    Trump Could Swing Fed With This 1 Weird Trick: Ex-Fed Gov.

    A former top Federal Reserve official told Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that if President Donald Trump succeeds in quickly ousting Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, it could unlock an obscure mechanism for his allies at the Fed to sway future interest-rate decisions.

  • September 17, 2025

    Winston & Strawn Blamed For 'Anti-Woke' Fintech $1.7B Crash

    The trustee of bankrupt "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi on Wednesday launched malpractice litigation against Winston & Strawn LLP in Texas bankruptcy court, accusing the firm and one of its managing partners of putting the interests of the company's founder first and costing the business $1.7 billion in valuation.

  • September 17, 2025

    PTAB Told Variations From Prior Rulings Require Explanation

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has told Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges that they must now explain any decisions that have a different outcome from an earlier ruling on the same patent or similar patent claims, either by the patent office or in litigation.

  • September 17, 2025

    Credit Investment Firm Sues UBS Over Naked Juice Loan Deal

    A Connecticut branch of UBS faces a credit-investment firm's claims that UBS breached the terms of a loan participation agreement funding bottled juice company Naked Juice LLC after a restructuring of the agreement resulted in less favorable terms for the limited partnership.

  • September 17, 2025

    Billionaire Vik Eyes $11.5M Fee After Beating Deutsche Bank

    A lawyer for billionaire Alexander Vik told a Connecticut appeals panel Wednesday that a judge should have followed Turks and Caicos Islands law to award more than $11.5 million in attorney fees when he beat Deutsche Bank in a long-running lawsuit that sought to collect on a $243 million judgment over unpaid margin calls.

  • September 17, 2025

    8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of FDIC Fee Guidance Challenge

    The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a banking industry challenge to Biden-era Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guidance that cautioned banks about charging recurring fees on declined transactions, ruling the matter not ripe for court review.

  • September 17, 2025

    NC Loan Servicer Can't Escape Default Warning Letter Suit

    Housing loan servicer Selene Finance LP must face most of a putative class action accusing it of sending false and deceptive notices regarding loan defaults, with a North Carolina court finding that the plaintiffs have shown various elements of deception.

  • September 17, 2025

    Ex-Im Bank Wants Suit Over $20B Mozambique LNG Project Axed

    The Export-Import Bank of the United States is asking a D.C. federal judge to toss green groups' effort to block $4.7 billion in financing for a liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique led by TotalEnergies SE.

  • September 17, 2025

    Atty Gets $4.3M Judgment Against Crypto Investment Cos.

    A Pennsylvania state court has ordered four cryptocurrency companies to release more than $4.3 million in funds to a Pittsburgh attorney who claims the companies unjustly froze his accounts when he tried to make withdrawals.

  • September 17, 2025

    Del. High Court Probes Reviving Gellert Seitz Malpractice Case

    A Delaware justice took aim at an argument she seemed to suggest wasn't fleshed out enough in appellate filings as a homebuilder's attorney urged the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to undo Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC's win in a legal malpractice case.

  • September 17, 2025

    Womble Bond Hires Longtime Clifford Chance Leader In DC

    Womble Bond Dickinson LLP has hired a career Clifford Chance LLP lawyer in Washington who served in a number of leadership roles with the firm in his more than 35 years there, including most recently as the global co-head of its risk team and leader of its U.S. regulatory investigations and financial crime group.

  • September 17, 2025

    NY Regulator Pushes Blockchain Analytics For Compliance

    New York's Department of Financial Services on Wednesday emphasized that it expects banks under its purview to incorporate blockchain analytics tools as part of their compliance programs if they're engaging in crypto activities.

  • September 16, 2025

    DOJ Fights Court Order To Reinstate NCUA Board Members

    The Trump administration has told the D.C. Circuit that the president had the right to remove two National Credit Union Administration board members at will, and that a lower court was wrong to reinstate them and read extra job protections into the law.

  • September 16, 2025

    Ky. Judge Backs Fed's Debit-Fee Cap In Split With ND Ruling

    A Kentucky federal judge on Monday upheld a Federal Reserve Board cap on debit-card swipe fees that a local merchant challenged as overly generous to banks, breaking with a North Dakota federal court that recently rejected the same regulation.

  • September 16, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Won't Look At USAA's Nixed $223M Patent Verdicts

    The full Federal Circuit declined Tuesday to scrutinize panel decisions that wiped out a pair of patent infringement verdicts against PNC Bank that totaled nearly $223 million, rejecting United Services Automobile Association's arguments that the appeals court wrongly invalidated its mobile check deposit patents.

  • September 16, 2025

    Chase Accused Of Credit Card Perks Bait-And-Switch

    JPMorgan Chase Bank NA has been hit with a consumer's proposed class action accusing it of soliciting customers to pay for $750 credit card memberships and refusing to provide the card's promised benefits of select restaurant and streaming service payment reimbursement.

  • September 16, 2025

    Goldman, Morgan Stanley Beat Archegos Suit At 2nd Circ.

    The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley of profiting off insider knowledge that the investment firm Archegos Capital Management was about to collapse, ruling that the companies had no duty to withhold from trading on the information.

  • September 16, 2025

    Wells Fargo Brass Reach Settlement In 'Sham' Hiring Suit

    Wells Fargo investors and executives have told a California federal judge they've reached a settlement in a derivative suit claiming the bank's leadership failed to address the company's discriminatory lending and hiring practices.

  • September 16, 2025

    Starbucks Resolves Swipe Fee Claims With BofA, Mastercard

    Starbucks is the latest retailer to settle claims in an antitrust action Tuesday in New York federal court alleging Mastercard, Bank of America and several other financial institutions were part of an illegal scheme forcing merchants to pay excessive fees when shoppers pay with their credit or debit cards. 

  • September 16, 2025

    FDIC Gets More Discovery In SVB Fraud Coverage Row

    A Chubb unit must comply with a previous order forcing it to give documents relating to the drafting history of certain policy provisions to Silicon Valley Bank former parent SVB Financial Group in a $73 million private equity fraud coverage dispute, a North Carolina federal court ruled.

Expert Analysis

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care

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    Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.

  • What Expanding Merchant Code Regs Mean For Processors

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    Arkansas and South Dakota recently joined a host of other states that restrict payment processors' usage of merchant category codes with laws that include noteworthy prohibitions against maintaining registries of firearms owners, with ramifications for multistate payment systems, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'

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    The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • 3rd-Party Audit Tactics To Improve Export Control Compliance

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    Companies should take a strategic approach to third-party audits in response to the Trump administration's ramp-up of export control enforcement with steps that strengthen their ability to identify the control weaknesses of distributors, dealers and resellers, say Michael Huneke at Hughes Hubbard, and John Rademacher and Abby Williams at Secretariat Advisors.

  • A Look At Trump Admin's Shifting Strategies To Curtail CFPB

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    The Trump administration has so far carried out its goal of minimizing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's authority and footprint via an individualized approach comprising rule rollbacks, litigation moves and administrative tools, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Can Companies Add Tariffs Back To Earnings Calculations?

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    With the recent and continually evolving tariffs announced by the Trump administration, John Ryan at King & Spalding takes a detailed look at whether those new tariffs can be added back in calculating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — an important question that may greatly affect a company's compliance with its financial covenants.

  • How Trump Admin Treasury Policies Are Reaching Banks

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    The Treasury Department has emerged as an important facilitator of the Trump administration's financial policies affecting banks, which are now facing deregulation domestically and the use of international economic authorities in cross-border trade and investment, say attorneys at Davis Polk.

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    My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.

  • A Look At DOJ's Dropped Case Against Early Crypto Operator

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    The prosecution of an early crypto exchange operator over alleged unlicensed money transmission was recently dropped in Indiana federal court, showcasing that the U.S. Justice Department may be limiting the types of enforcement cases it will bring against digital asset firms, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Policy Shifts Bring New Anti-Money Laundering Challenges

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    In the second half of 2025, the U.S. anti-money laundering regulatory landscape is poised for decisive shifts in enforcement priorities, compliance expectations and legislative developments — so investment advisers and other financial institutions should take steps to prepare for potential new obligations and areas of risk, say attorneys at Linklaters.

  • 8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

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    Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients

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    Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.

  • Rocket Mortgage Appeal May Push Justices To Curb Classes

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    Should the U.S. Supreme Court agree to hear Alig v. Rocket Mortgage, the resulting decision could limit class sizes based on commonality under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Evidence as opposed to standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, say attorneys at Carr Maloney.

  • How State AG Consumer Finance Enforcement Is Expanding

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    As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau becomes less active, state attorneys general are increasingly shaping the enforcement landscape for consumer financial services — and several areas of focus have recently emerged, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

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    My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

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