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This is Lex Reg Pulse Daily for Friday, May 15, 2026.

Kevin Warsh begins his first full day as Federal Reserve Chair with futures markets pricing a rate hike as the base case, inflation at three-year highs, and a demanding supervisory calendar already in motion.

Three developments demand internal review before the week closes: the CFPB's updated Supervision and Examination Manual, effective today; the FDIC's approval of Stellantis's industrial loan company charter; and new FDIC research on deposit run velocity from the 2023 bank failures that gives examiners a granular behavioral benchmark they did not previously have.

The CFPB manual update is the most operationally immediate item on the calendar.

The revised manual resets examination procedures across the full consumer protection statute inventory — that includes Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices, Truth in Lending, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, and remittance transfers.

Examiners apply the new framework at the next supervision cycle, regardless of when an institution last reviewed its consumer compliance program.

Compliance and internal audit teams should confirm current testing frameworks reflect the updated methodology before the next cycle begins.

One important distinction: Acting Director Vought's public defense this week of terminating the Citigroup consent order reflects a posture on legacy enforcement actions.

The updated manual governs active supervision going forward.

The two signals point in different directions and should not be read as a single policy direction.

The FDIC cleared Stellantis's application to charter an industrial loan company.

The ILC structure allows a commercial firm to hold a federally insured bank without becoming a bank holding company subject to Federal Reserve supervision — a regulatory perimeter question that community banks and the Fed have contested for years.

The approval under current FDIC leadership confirms the pathway is open.

Banks competing in auto lending and consumer finance should treat this as a direct competitive entry.

The FDIC's staff study on the 2023 bank failures documents what the agency describes as the fastest bank runs in US history, using transaction-level data from Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank.

The core finding: large uninsured depositors were far more likely to execute complete or near-complete withdrawals across all accounts, including business operating accounts.

Fully insured retail depositors were generally stable.

Pass-through insured balances held by large depositors also showed elevated run rates — indicating depositor size and sophistication override insurance status as a run predictor.

FDIC Chairman Travis Hill stated the agency will use this research to calibrate supervisory frameworks going forward.

Banks with above-average uninsured deposit concentrations should verify that liquidity stress models reflect the outflow velocity the study documents.

Examiners now have a specific behavioral benchmark to test against.

On monetary policy, the rate environment is hardening.

Futures price a hike as the most likely next move; cut odds before July 2027 sit at approximately one percent.

Warsh inherits two open Fed board seats, with Stephen Miran's resignation pending his successor's confirmation.

Governor Barr, in remarks this week, explicitly rejected significant balance sheet contraction and reaffirmed the ample-reserves framework — the outgoing Fed's framing on quantitative tightening ahead of Warsh's first press conference.

Banks running stress scenarios only against hold-or-cut rate paths carry unaddressed net interest margin exposure.

The CLARITY Act passed the Senate Banking Committee with two Democratic votes conditioned on pre-floor ethics language.

The yield restriction question — whether non-bank stablecoin issuers can offer yield-bearing instruments that bank deposit products cannot legally match — remains unresolved and will be relitigated in floor negotiations.

The competitive architecture question between bank-chartered and non-bank stablecoin issuers stays open until the floor version is locked.

Finally, California Governor Newsom appointed former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra to lead the state's new Business and Consumer Services Agency, pending state Senate confirmation.

California is the largest single state market for consumer financial products.

Institutions with significant California consumer business should monitor the confirmation process.

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