In a Financial Institution Letter, the FDIC told counterparties and service providers to the recently failed Silicon Valley Bank, N.A. and Signature Bank, N.A. that (i) they remain obligated to the successor bridge banks of the two failed banks and (ii) they must meet their contractual obligations to the bridge banks.
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The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services marked up and passed bills on special purpose acquisition companies, broker-dealer and investment adviser mandatory arbitration clauses in customer agreements, and hiring practices.
The Federal Reserve Board, CFPB, FDIC, OCC, National Credit Union Administration and state financial regulators alerted mortgage servicers that they will resume their respective pre-pandemic supervisory and enforcement approaches towards noncompliance with mortgage-servicing rules.
The Federal Reserve Board adopted amendments to the reserve requirements for depository institutions to (i) create a new single "interest on reserve balances" rate and (ii) simplify the formula for payment of interest on balances.
A Federal Reserve Board final rule that expands the number of financial institutions that fall under the "netting" provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 was published in the Federal Register.