OCC Rule Affirms Valid-When-Made Doctrine

A&B Abstract: On June 21, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), along with five federal regulatory agencies (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) (the “Agencies”), published for public […]

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A&B ABstract: On October 27, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued a noteworthy final rulemaking that sets forth when a national bank or federal savings association originates a loan and is deemed the “true lender” in the context of a partnership between a bank and a non-bank third party, known […]

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A&B Abstract: As we have previously reported, effective August 3 the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (“OCC”) has issued a final rule affirming the “valid-when-made” doctrine while dismissing the Second Circuit decision in Madden v. Midland Finding, LLC. On June 9, 2020, however, a Colorado state court handed down an unexpectedly negative ruling […]

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