Company: FSBC
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-038796
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Company: FIVE STAR BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 246
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4 Policy Statement and reinstated the Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions that was in effect prior to the 2024 Policy Statement. The United States Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) has left in place its 2023 Merger Guidelines as a framework to review bank mergers and has not reinstated the 1995 Bank Merger Guidelines that it previously applied to bank mergers and which the Federal Reserve continues to apply. Compared to the 1995 Bank Merger Guidelines, the 2023 Merger Guidelines set forth more stringent concentration limits and add several largely qualitative bases on which the DOJ may challenge a merger.

On July 30, 2024, the FDIC issued a proposed rule that would revise the FDIC’s regulations governing the classification and treatment of brokered deposits. On March 3, 2025, the FDIC withdrew the proposed rule.

On October 24, 2023, the federal banking agencies issued a final rule amending their regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) to substantially revise how they evaluate an insured depository institution’s record of satisfying the credit needs of its entire communities, including low- and moderate-income individuals and neighborhoods. On July 16, 2025, the agencies issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind the October 2023 final rule and restore the CRA framework that existed previously, which has remained in effect due to a preliminary injunction that stayed implementation of the October 2023 rule. The Bank received a rating of “Satisfactory” in its most recent performance evaluation, which was conducted using the CRA framework that existed prior to the October 2023 final rule.

On October 22, 2024, the CFPB released a final rule to implement Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”). Under the final rule, financial institutions are required, upon request, to make available to a consumer or third party authorized by the consumer certain information Five Star has concerning a consumer financial product or service covered by the rule, such as a credit card or a deposit account. Industry organizations challenged the final rule in court. On May 30, 2025, the CFPB filed a motion for summary judgment in the litigation, stating that it had concluded that the final rule exceeds the agency’s statutory authority and is arbitrary and capricious. The CFPB requested that the court vacate the final rule. On July 29, 2025, the