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March 31, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Tuesday that it is dropping its requirements for large banks to keep contingency plans for handling severe financial stress scenarios, finalizing the withdrawal of guidelines that date back to the Obama administration.
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March 31, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has overturned the sale of an immigration bond company found liable for predatory lending practices, ruling the transaction knowingly violated the terms of an $811 million judgment entered just days before the deal was signed.
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March 31, 2026
A Georgia federal judge freed the city of Atlanta and its former inspector general from a lobbyist and city contractor's suit accusing them of illegally issuing subpoenas for the lobbyist's bank records to bolster a frivolous corruption probe.
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March 31, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former Clifford Chance LLP attorney as a debt finance partner in the firm's complex securitizations practice.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's illicit finance watchdog called Monday for banks to step up monitoring for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, issuing new guidance on flagging suspicious activity, which came as officials also moved to incentivize financial crime reporting with new draft rules to offer tipster rewards.
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March 30, 2026
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is demanding answers from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins about the sudden resignation of the regulator's enforcement director and whether her departure was related to cryptocurrency cases, including one touching on the Trump family's ventures.
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March 30, 2026
Patent quality advocacy group Askeladden LLC has backed X Corp.'s Federal Circuit challenge to a loss of more than $175 million that it saw in a patent infringement suit, saying the patented claims at issue should have been found invalid to begin with.
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March 30, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Friday freed Comerica Bank from claims that it unlawfully profited from a government benefit debit card program it administered by keeping the interest generated by the funds, finding that two contractual agreements invalidate the cardholders' claims to the earnings.
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March 30, 2026
Toronto-based TD Bank has moved to New Jersey federal court two suits from hedge funds that invested in First Horizon Corp. alleging TD Bank is liable for their losses due to statements it made about the likelihood of regulatory approval of the banks' merger, arguing the suits both raise federal questions that belong in federal court.
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March 30, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured disputes involving globally recognized companies, high-dollar contract fights, revived claims from the state's high court and the resolution of a closely watched de-SPAC case.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposal Monday to expand access to alternative investments, like private equity and digital assets, in retirement plans by establishing a safe harbor process for fiduciaries to follow when deciding where retirees' savings go.
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March 27, 2026
Bank of America agreed to pay $72.5 million to put to rest a proposed class action alleging the bank helped facilitate Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the deal filed in New York federal court Friday.
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March 27, 2026
The National Creditors Bar Association is not pleased with the Federal Communications Commission's plans to pass new rules that would require companies to make sure their foreign call center operators speak "American Standard English," saying the agency has no power over foreign employees.
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March 27, 2026
The ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee asked the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to share more information about its decision to grant crypto firm Kraken Financial access to Fed payment rails, including what limits it imposed on the new type of tailored master account.
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March 27, 2026
The Federal Reserve has narrowly granted its permission for Morgan Stanley to turn its European Union banking arm into a unit of its insured U.S. bank, a move that sharply divided the central bank's board amid concerns about straining the federal bank safety net.
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March 27, 2026
Florida community bank First National Bank of Pasco told a federal judge that two former executives who claim they were fired for blowing the whistle on banking law violations were actually fairly terminated, and one of the plaintiffs did not even participate in the alleged whistleblowing.
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March 27, 2026
An investor lawsuit accusing Credit Suisse of concealing its financial strains leading up to its takeover by UBS AG was trimmed by a New York federal judge, who found the suit failed to support its New Jersey racketeering claim.
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March 27, 2026
A D.C. federal court said Friday it does not have the authority to order New York City to issue a tax refund sought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in its capacity as receiver of the failed Silicon Valley Bank.
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March 27, 2026
Blake Rooney, who spent the past eight years as the chief information officer of Husch Blackwell LLP, announced through a LinkedIn post on Friday that he would be joining Wells Fargo & Co. as its artificial intelligence business executive for legal, public affairs and internal audit.
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March 27, 2026
Polsinelli PC has hired a longtime McDermott Will & Schulte LLP attorney to co-lead its special situations and alternative investment practice, saying the move "further advanc[es] the firm's strategic focus on private credit, distressed investing, and complex restructuring matters."
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March 27, 2026
The past week in London has seen Apple hit back at a tech company's wireless charging patent claim, a flurry of businesses bring COVID-19 pandemic insurance claims as a key deadline draws closer and Ipulse Partners LLP file a claim against a luxury yacht company it represented in a trademark dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia federal court granted final approval Friday to United Bank Corp.'s $2 million class action settlement ending allegations that it unlawfully ousted ex-workers from an employee stock ownership plan and cut them out of proceeds from a $23.3 million dividend.
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March 26, 2026
PNC no longer faces allegations it failed to prevent a customer's losses after his employees drained nearly $205,000 from his accounts, a Philadelphia federal judge found, noting the plaintiff's estate administrator didn't properly dispute relevant facts asserted by the bank.
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March 26, 2026
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined a San Francisco-based broker-dealer $600,000 for allegedly failing to supervise employees' use of unapproved messaging platforms, in a type of proceeding FINRA's CEO said earlier this week would indicate a "real breakdown" in oversight.
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March 26, 2026
The Ninth Circuit declined Thursday to revisit a panel decision that held federally chartered banks aren't exempt from a California law requiring interest to be paid on mortgage escrow accounts, leaving Flagstar Bank on the hook for a $9 million borrower class action judgment.