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On Tuesday, May 5, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman addressed the Women in Housing and Finance Symposium.
On Friday, May 1, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a long-awaited final rule implementing Section 1071 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA), which addresses required reporting on certain small business loans.
On April 18, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized their proposed rule to amend Regulation B, the promulgating rule tied to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA).
On April 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that, if adopted, would significantly reform financial institutions’ anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) programs under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
On March 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a joint interpretive release clarifying the application of the federal securities laws to digital assets.
In this article, we'll delve into recent news on financial consumer protection, but before doing so, we'll provide an update on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
On March 23, 2026, the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) published guidance in the Federal Register regarding “Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets.”
On March 11, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced that they have entered into a new Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to coordinate rulemaking, supervision, examinations and enforcement across areas where the agencies’ jurisdiction overlaps.
On February 25, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPRM”) to implement the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the “GENIUS Act”). The proposal would add a new Part 15 to the OCC’s regulations and establish the supervisory framework applicable to “permitted payment stablecoin issuers” subject to OCC jurisdiction. The comment period will run for sixty days after publication in the Federal Register.
On January 28, 2026, the SEC’s Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets issued a joint statement addressing “tokenized securities.” The staff defines a tokenized security as a financial instrument that already fits within the statutory definition of a “security,” but is “formatted as or represented by a crypto asset,” with ownership recorded in whole or in part on a crypto network. In other words, putting a security “onchain” does not in and of itself change the security into something else.