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Supreme Court Update for Banking and Financial Services Professionals

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by Charles W. Prueter, Waller The benefits of arbitration to frequent and experienced litigants are widely known. For example, discovery generally is more limited, the length of the entire proceeding typically is shorter, the information at the center of the dispute more easily remains ...Read More

Washington Update: Keeping Pace With Change

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by Rob Nichols If you are like many of the hundreds of bankers I have talked to since joining ABA three years ago, odds are you have an issue with your core provider. Yes, these companies are critical partners, and they deliver many excellent ...Read More

Supreme Court Update for Banking and Financial Services Professionals

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by Charles W. Prueter In the last installment of the Update, I wrote about then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s commitment to textualism and the separation of powers. Suffice to say, nobody has thought much about any legal doctrines or methods over the month since. Nevertheless, here ...Read More

Branch Employee Sales Compensation Practices: The Sequel

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by Elena A. Lovoy The summer movie line-up always includes sequels or reboots of prior box office hits and this summer has been no exception. “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” was released on July 20. The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) also ...Read More

Supreme Court Update for Banking and Financial Services Professionals: A Look at (Soon-To-Be) Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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by Charles W. Prueter Since the departure of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2005, Justice Anthony Kennedy has been considered the “swing” vote in cases of great moment, and focusing on—at times, obsessing over—how he would see the law became an oft-repeated ritual each ...Read More

New Banks as Bellwethers

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by Naomi Camper When I joined ABA as chief policy officer in June, a task force of bankers with experience launching and running new banks were mid-way through their analysis of why “de novo” activity had stalled in recent years. Their mission—as established by ...Read More

S. 2155: Now for the Just-as-Hard Part

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By Rob Nichols, American Bankers Association President & CEO Prior to May 24, 2018, bankers may have had a hard time remembering what a big win in Congress looked like. It’s true that in the past year we saw important progress with the enactment ...Read More

New Tools to Tell the Story of America’s Banks

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by Rob Nichols, president and CEO of the American Bankers Association One of the reasons the banking industry is seeing an improved policy environment in Washington is because bankers have spent the last few years telling their stories. They didn’t ask for regulatory relief ...Read More

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Is Regulatory Relief Coming for Banks?

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Background On March 14, the United States Senate passed S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which if enacted would provide significant regulatory relief to smaller financial institutions, including community banks, credit unions, midsize banks, small regional banks, and custody ...Read More

Capitol Notes: Week Eleven

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With two days remaining in the proposed schedule for the 2018 Regular Session, all of the three bills still being tracked by the association are in position to pass before the final day adjourns next week. First, House Bill 417, a bill Rep. Chris ...Read More

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