Recently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Reserve Board (Federal Reserve) jointly updated 15 supervisory interagency guidance documents by removing references to “reputation risk.” The updated guidance follows other agency actions to remove “reputation risk” from supervisory guidance and examinations and is part of a broader federal effort to eliminate so-called politicized or unlawful debanking. …
AI Executive Order Creates Voluntary Framework for Frontier Models, Advances Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
On June 2, 2026, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order (EO) addressing the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. This EO has direct implications for AI developers, critical infrastructure companies, and any business operating at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. The EO directs federal agencies to take a series of actions (many within 30 to 60 days) with the purposes of upgrading …
White House Issues Executive Orders Targeting Financial System Integrity, Fintech Innovation
On May 19, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled, “Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System.” The order is designed to mitigate risks to the financial system “posed by the extension of credit or financial services to the inadmissible and removable alien population.” The order stops short of requiring firms to verify each customer’s citizenship status – a controversial move that was reportedly …
Executive Order Seeks to Expand Access to Mortgage Credit
On March 13, 2026, the White House issued an executive order that directs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and federal housing and banking agencies to consider a series of mortgage-related regulatory and supervisory changes, with a particular focus on community banks (generally under $30 billion in assets) and “smaller banks” (under $100 billion in assets). The order aims to “improve the availability and affordability …
Executive Order Seeks to Limit Large Institutional Investors From Purchasing Single-Family Homes
On January 20, 2026, the Trump administration issued an executive order to limit the purchase of single-family homes by Wall Street investors. Declaring it the administration’s policy that “large institutional investors should not buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by families,” the executive order aims to “preserve the supply of single-family homes for American families and increase the paths to homeownership.” While the …
Showdown: New Executive Order Puts Federal Government and States on a Collision Course Over AI Regulation
Last week, the White House issued a new executive order (EO) seeking to limit states’ regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and instead create a uniform national AI policy. The EO does not preempt state AI laws, but it mobilizes federal agencies to take actions that may curtail state efforts to enforce their laws and regulate AI. The EO directs the Justice Department to create a …