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May

1
2025
Industry News

FTC Regulators Remark on Agency’s Priorities Under Trump Administration

As reported by BloombergLaw, last week, Federal Trade Commission Commissioners made statements indicating a shift in the agency’s priorities under the Trump Administration to focus enforcement efforts on existing federal privacy laws while foregoing broader definitions of consumer harm, and fostering AI innovation.

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May

1
2025
Industry News

GAO agrees to investigate attempted CFPB firings, other recent bureau actions

The Government Accountability Office has agreed to investigate recent CFPB moves to fire more than 1,400 employees and the impact it and other agency actions have had on the bureau’s ability to operate.

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May

1
2025
Industry News

OCC Releases CRA Performance Evaluations for 25 National Banks and Federal Savings Associations

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of April 1, 2025, through April 30, 2025.

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May

1
2025
Compliance

CFPB Keeps Its Enforcement and Supervision Resources Focused on Pressing Threats to Consumers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is announcing today that, with respect to the regulation titled Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B), implementing Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 88 Fed. Reg. 35,150 (May 31, 2023), it will not prioritize enforcement or supervision actions with regard to entities that are currently outside the stay imposed under Texas Bankers Association v. CFPB, No. 24-40705 (CA5).

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April

30
2025
Compliance

An open letter to third-party suppliers

SaaS has become the default and is often the only format in which software is now delivered, leaving organizations with little choice but to rely heavily on a small set of leading service providers, embedding concentration risk into global critical infrastructure. While this model delivers efficiency and rapid innovation, it simultaneously magnifies the impact of any weakness, outage, or breach, creating single points of failure with potentially catastrophic systemwide consequences. Historically, software was distributed across diverse environments, each with unique security practices, inherently limiting the scale of any single breach. Today, an attack on one major SaaS or PaaS provider can immediately ripple through its customers. This fundamental shift demands our collective immediate attention.

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