Bankruptcy Blogs

10 years after bruising Dodd-Frank fight, is bipartisanship returning?

07/06/20

Rancor between Democrats and Republicans has made it hard to enact subsequent bills. But the 2018 reg relief package and more recent legislation offer hope for efforts to reach across the aisle.

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Supreme Court ruling eliminates autodialer use for FHA, VA collections

07/06/20

The court struck down a 2015 update to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which permitted robocalls to cell phones for government-related debt collection.

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BBVA will use data-driven model to start reopening branches

07/06/20

BBVA USA in Birmingham, Ala., says it will use a proprietary score based on multiple sources of coronavirus-related information to determine when certain branches are ready for walk-in traffic.

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Big banks join fight against new ILCs

07/06/20

Small banks have long led the campaign against industrial loan companies, arguing they can be used to violate the separation of banking and commerce. But now the industry’s heavyweights are also taking a hard line in response to an FDIC proposal that would give tech companies a smoother path into the lending business.

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Trump administration discloses details on $521.5 billion in virus aid

07/06/20

The Trump administration released details of almost 4.9 million loans to businesses — from sole proprietors to restaurant and hotel chains — under the federal government's largest coronavirus relief program so far, the $669 billion Paycheck Protection Program.

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‘There will be hundreds of fintech failures’

07/06/20

Jane Gladstone, new president of Promontory Interfinancial Network, says the recession will accelerate the shakeout among the nonbank disruptors and that small banks have an opportunity to forge new bonds with the survivors.

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Fed to start buying loan stakes in coronavirus rescue program

07/06/20

Banks participating in the Main Street Lending Program were able to register for and offer credit to businesses last month, but the Federal Reserve said Monday it was set to make the effort fully operational.

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Banks are ditching London offices and not just because of COVID-19

07/06/20

With thousands of job cuts likely to follow what's forecast to be the worst recession in three centuries, the tenants of the glass and steel towers that dominate the City of London and Canary Wharf may face an even bigger retreat.

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Repealing brokered deposit law would be a costly mistake

07/06/20

Congress and the FDIC are considering easing limits on banks' holdings of such deposits, a move that could inadvertently lead to more expensive failures.

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German giants tell divergent stories; European banks' U.S. units under pressure

07/06/20

Deutsche Bank says it’s on track to meet its financial targets while Commerzbank's top two executives resign; recent Fed stress test results show Euro banks' poor performance in U.S continues.

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