Jonathan V. Gould

Rule Changes

Leading federal investigation into bank debanking practices

Donald Trump banked with JPMorgan Chase for decades. Seven weeks after the January 6 Capitol attack, the bank gave him 60 days to move hundreds of millions of dollars elsewhere. Now, as a sitting president, Trump is suing America's largest bank and its CEO for $5 billion, alleging political discrimination.

Updated Jan 25

Rule Changes

Regulator leading OCC’s withdrawal from leveraged-lending guidance

In March 2013, U.S. bank regulators issued joint supervisory guidance on leveraged lending to prevent a return of pre-2008-style underwriting excesses, with examiners informally anchoring scrutiny around a roughly six-times-EBITDA leverage benchmark. Over the next decade, banks’ pullback helped shift riskier deal finance toward private-credit funds, CLOs, and other nonbanks—expanding an opaque “shadow banking” ecosystem even as regulators maintained the guidance was supervisory, not a binding rule.

Updated Dec 11, 2025