Banking

  • September 29, 2025

    Wells Fargo Defends $400K Award Against Ex-Adviser

    Wells Fargo urged a North Carolina federal court to reject a bid from a former financial adviser to vacate a nearly $400,000 arbitration award entered against him, arguing that the ex-employee has failed to meet the high burden required for court interference.

  • September 29, 2025

    McCarter & English Slams Pre-Trial Win Bid In $22M Suit

    McCarter & English LLP has asked a Connecticut state judge to block two insurers' summary judgment bids on breach of contract claims connected to a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit, saying both sides agreed to a 2026 bench trial and conducted discovery assuming neither side would seek a quick win.

  • September 29, 2025

    Ex-Frank CEO Gets 7 Years Over Soured JPMorgan Deal

    Frank founder and former CEO Charlie Javice was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison following her conviction at trial for conning JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the now-shuttered student financial aid startup for $175 million by lying about its user base.

  • September 29, 2025

    Legal Funder Settles Licensing Row With Conn. Banking Chief

    A Connecticut-based litigation funding company will pay up to $50,000 in restitution to its customers and cease all unlicensed small loan activity after entering a consent order with the state's Department of Banking.

  • September 29, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    A Delaware vice chancellor expressed disappointment and concern over what she says is a "breakdown" in "civility and respect" that has emerged in recent Delaware corporate litigation. A $30 million settlement was approved in the five-year running Match.com reverse spinoff suit, and the top brass of Estée Lauder were hit with a derivative suit for allegedly covering up the company's reliance on prohibited, duty-free "gray market" sales of its products in China.

  • September 29, 2025

    NY's Top Financial Services Regulator Is Stepping Down

    The head of the New York State Department of Financial Services is stepping down next month and will be replaced on an interim basis by the chief of its fintech-focused innovation division, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

  • September 26, 2025

    CFPB Hires Ex-Lobbyist For Top Policy Job Amid Rollbacks

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has tapped a veteran financial industry lobbyist for a top policymaking job that will position him to spearhead the Trump administration's push to roll back regulation at the agency, Law360 has learned.

  • September 26, 2025

    Trump Says Cook Can't Rely On 'Mantra' Of Fed Independence

    The Trump administration Friday fired back at Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook's argument that the Fed's independence is at stake if the president is allowed to fire her, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that Cook invokes "the mantra of Federal Reserve independence" to impose removal protections Congress never enacted.

  • September 26, 2025

    2 Firms Guide Heritage Bank's $177M Wash. Lender Buyout

    Washington-based Heritage Financial Corp. has agreed to acquire the parent company of community lender Kitsap Bank in a nearly $177 million all-stock transaction guided by Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP and Otteson Shapiro LLP.

  • September 26, 2025

    SEC To Weigh Waivers Alongside Enforcement Settlements

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins announced Friday the agency will return to a practice of allowing firms to request waivers from follow-on consequences of enforcement actions while they pursue settlement discussions to resolve their case.

  • September 26, 2025

    Swizz Beatz Can't Avoid $7.3M 1MDB Fraud Case

    A New York federal judge on Friday denied hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz's bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges he received millions of dollars in the infamous 1Malaysia Development Berhad fraud scandal, saying liquidators for two alleged shell companies sufficiently alleged fraudulent transfers of funds among other claims.

  • September 26, 2025

    Banks Evade Most Liability Claims In Copyright Suit

    A pair of banks had the majority of the liability claims against them tossed by a Colorado federal judge Friday in an architectural group's copyright lawsuit against a real estate developer, whose project they financed.

  • September 26, 2025

    SEC Eyes Tweaking RMBS Rules To Revive Dormant Market

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission put out a call for public comments on improving its rules over residential mortgage-backed securities, noting that there have been no such public offerings in more than a decade and questioning whether the agency's requirements may be partially to blame.

  • September 26, 2025

    United Bank To Pay $2M Settling ESOP Class Action

    United Bank Corp. has agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims it booted former employees out of its employee stock ownership plan and cut them out of the proceeds of a $23.3 million dividend, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

  • September 26, 2025

    2nd Circ. Urged To Rethink Afghan Central Bank Ruling

    Victims of two terrorist attacks have called on the en banc Second Circuit to reconsider a panel's August decision rejecting their attempts to secure blocked funds held by the central bank of Afghanistan, arguing the panel ignored U.S. Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedents.

  • September 26, 2025

    Capital One Resolves Ex-Workers' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

    Capital One has agreed to end a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully used tens of millions of dollars in forfeited 401(k) funds to reduce its own contributions to the plan rather than curtail administrative costs, the company told a New York federal court.

  • September 26, 2025

    JPMorgan Must Face Mich. Firm's Fraud Debt Collection Suit

    JPMorgan Chase Bank must face a Michigan law firm's claim that the firm shouldn't have to repay debt for lines of credit a former controller took out fraudulently in the firm's name, a Michigan federal judge said, but the bank escaped allegations under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.

  • September 26, 2025

    Wells Fargo Nears Deal With Investors In 'Sham' Hiring Suit

    Wells Fargo and investors who said they lost money after allegations surfaced that the bank conducted fake interviews to show it met diversity goals have told a California federal court they've reached a settlement in principle, less than two weeks after the company announced a deal in a derivative lawsuit over similar claims.

  • September 26, 2025

    Jones Day Hires NY Public Finance Attorney From Orrick

    Jones Day announced that its New York office has gained a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lawyer who advises issuers, underwriters and lenders on public finance and real assets transactions.

  • September 26, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: De Brauw, Hengeler Mueller

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, power grid operator TenneT Holding sells a stake in its German transmission business to institutional investors, Pfizer Inc. acquires biotechnology company Metsera Inc., and Dutch brewer Heineken NV buys most of Costa Rica's FIFCO beverage and retail operations.

  • September 26, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • September 25, 2025

    Standing Questions Loom In Mozambique LNG Loan Dispute

    The requirements for organizational standing dominated much of Thursday's oral argument over the Export-Import Bank of the United States' decision to back a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, as the challengers sought a preliminary injunction that could hinge on recent standing rulings from the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.

  • September 25, 2025

    Fed's Cook Warns Justices Of Fed Independence 'Death Knell'

    Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust her, warning that allowing her dismissal at this juncture would "sound the death knell" for an independent Fed.

  • September 25, 2025

    CashCall Urges Justices To Overturn $134M CFPB Award

    CashCall is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit order that left the loan company on the hook for $134 million in restitution to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the firm's insistence that conflicting precedent deprived it of its right to a jury trial.

  • September 25, 2025

    Big Banks Beat Yearslong Libor-Rigging Claims In NY

    A New York federal judge Thursday disposed of the remaining claims in long-running multidistrict litigation accusing Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other large banks of Libor manipulation.

Expert Analysis

  • Senate Bill Could Overhaul Digital Asset Market Structure

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    The Senate Banking Committee's draft Responsible Financial Innovation Act would not only clarify the roles and responsibilities of financial institutions engaging in digital asset activities but also impose new compliance regimes, reporting requirements and risk management protocols, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Stablecoin Committee Promotes Uniformity But May Fall Short

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    While the Genius Act's establishment of the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee will provide private stablecoin issuers with more consistent standards, fragmentation remains due to the disparate regulatory approaches taken by different states, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Agentic AI Puts A New Twist On Attorney Ethics Obligations

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    As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.

  • The Consequences Of OCC's Pivot On Disparate Impact

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    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent move to stop scrutinizing facially neutral lending policies that disproportionately affect a protected group reflects the administration's ongoing shift in assessing discrimination, though this change may not be enough to dissuade claims by states or private plaintiffs, says Travis Nelson at Polsinelli.

  • Series

    Being A Professional Wrestler Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.

  • How FDIC Appeals Plan Squares With Fed, OCC Processes

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    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s recent proposal to revise its appeals process merits a fresh comparison to the appeals systems of the Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and would provide institutions with greater transparency and independence, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • SEC Rulemaking Radar: The Debut Of Atkins' 'New Day'

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory flex agenda, published last week, demonstrates a clear return to appropriately tailored and mission-focused rulemaking, with potential new rules applicable to brokers, exchanges and trading, among others, say attorneys at Goodwin.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Adapting To The Age Of AI

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    Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Voiding $2M Litigation Funding Sends A Warning

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    A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan.

  • Why Fla. Ruling Is A Call To Action For Foreclosure Counsel

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    A Florida state court's recent decision in Open Range Properties v. AmeriHome Mortgage has sent ripples through the banking industry and the legal community, and signals a new era of heightened scrutiny and procedural rigor in foreclosure litigation, says Andrew McBride and Adams & Reese.

  • Demystifying The Civil Procedure Rules Amendment Process

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    Every year, an advisory committee receives dozens of proposals to amend the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, most of which are never adopted — but a few pointers can help maximize the likelihood that an amendment will be adopted, says Josh Gardner at DLA Piper.

  • A Foreign Currency Breach Won't Always Sink EB-5 Cases

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    Recent court decisions show that, while EB-5 investors must be able to show the lawfulness of their funds and methods of transfer, a third-party currency exchanger's violation of another country’s currency export control law does not, by itself, taint the funds for purposes of U.S. investment, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.

  • With Obligor Ruling, Ohio Justices Calm Lending Waters

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    A recent decision by the Ohio Supreme Court, affirming a fundamental principle that lenders have no duty to disclose material risks to obligors, provides clarity for commercial lending practices in Ohio and beyond, and offers a reminder of the risks presented by guarantee arrangements, says Carrie Brosius at Vorys.

  • Evaluating The SEC's Rising Whistleblower Denial Rate

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    The rising trend of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower award claim denials represents a departure from the SEC's previous track record and may reflect a more conservative approach to whistleblower award determinations under the current administration, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • State Crypto Regs Diverge As Federal Framework Dawns

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    Following the Genius Act's passage, states like California, New York and Wyoming are racing to set new standards for crypto governance, creating both opportunity and risk for digital asset firms as innovation flourishes in some jurisdictions while costly friction emerges in others, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

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