Joe Silvia
41 episodes listed below
Banking regulation, made operational.
The Duane Morris Money and Banking Law Podcast with Joe Silvia is a serious, interview-driven guide to banking regulation and financial services law. It favors operating detail over headline reaction, moving from regulatory signals and bank charters to cannabis banking, capital raises, ALM, and insider lending rules.
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The Duane Morris Money and Banking Law Podcast with Joe Silvia is built around the practical machinery of banking law. It is technical by design. Rather than chasing general finance headlines, the show follows the places where regulation, compliance, capital, payments, and institutional judgment meet. Joe Silvia frames episodes from the perspective of someone who has worked inside banking regulation and now represents banks, fintechs, and financial services clients. That background gives the show a specific center of gravity. The questions are not ornamental; they are meant to surface what a bank, lawyer, board, adviser, or compliance team would actually need to consider next.
Episodes show that range clearly. A discussion of banking regulation under Trump 2.0 considers examination priorities, material financial risks, reputational risk, and new bank chartering. A cannabis banking episode gets into program economics, compliance infrastructure, customer acquisition, and the appeal of managed service models. Conversations on commercial banking relationships focus less on vague client service and more on trust, communication, billing discipline, and knowing a bank's business. Capital raising coverage moves through subordinated debt, refinancing decisions, public-company readiness, and market levels for community banks. The ALM conversation brings mortgages, community banks, and balance-sheet management into the same frame. Regulation O receives the explanatory treatment: insider lending, Federal Reserve Act roots, and the purpose of limiting self-dealing and credit exposure.
The show is steady and lawyerly, but not detached. Guests are allowed to speak at length, which gives episodes the feel of a professional consultation rather than a panel segment. It will not suit listeners looking for hot takes or broad personal-finance advice. It is strongest for people who want banking rules translated into decision points, risk categories, and implementation realities.
Made for: Designed for bank executives, fintech operators, financial services lawyers, compliance professionals, and advisers who need practical context around regulation, capital, payments, and institutional risk. It also suits serious students of banking law who want practitioner-level framing.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating legal and regulatory developments as operating problems, not just policy news. Its interview style keeps returning to implementation: examination focus, chartering, compliance costs, client relationships, capital timing, and governance exposure.
The Duane Morris Money and Banking Law podcast with Joe Silvia examines the latest news and events impacting the banking and financial services industries in the United States and globally. While we cannot provide legal advice, we intend to offer an actionable legal and compliance perspective on the most important developments in banking and financial services law and regulation. The podcast will cover everything from bank mergers and other strategic transactions to regulation and compliance with the patchwork of state and federal laws of our financial system, to the future of finance and payments, digital assets and cryptocurrencies to the...
Bank capital gets a legal briefing, so you can stop bluffing through the acronym soup.
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A practical look at how cannabis banking works when compliance and economics have to hold together.
The episode treats cannabis banking as an operating problem: how to build a compliant service that can still price, grow, and hold together once customer acquisition, compliance review, and managed platforms all meet the real world.
A grounded discussion of trust, fee pressure, and the discipline behind durable bank-client relationships.
Commercial banking relationships come through here as steady operating discipline: learn the client's business, understand where the bank fits best, stay close to senior management, and keep fees visible as the work grows.
A practical look at how banks are handling sub-debt renewals and capital timing.
Capital raising for banks is treated as a working finance problem, not a theory exercise, and the discussion stays tightly anchored to the balance sheet.
A grounded look at FIRREA, settlement leverage, and banking-policy history.
This one keeps the focus on FIRREA, Chris Casey's DOJ background, and the banks' complaint that a law meant to protect them ended up being used against them. Joe Silvia keeps it grounded, tracing what changed in enforcement and how the courts handled the challenge.
Irish business before the day starts.
Credit union strategy in practical detail.
Joe Silvia discusses insights from an event on banking regulation under a potential second Trump administration, featuring current and former Comptrollers of the Currency.
Cannabis banking is a compliance problem with a business model attached.
John Petrakis, a Duane Morris partner with more than 40 years of experience, explains how commercial finance lawyers build durable relationships with banks and non-bank lenders.
Jennifer Walker of ALM First explains to host Joe Silvia why community banks should stop trying to predict interest rates and instead structure for resilience, liquidity, and forward-looking ALCO decisions.
Capital is a practical question here.
Joe Silvia introduces Fed Vice Chair Michelle Bowman's remarks at the 2026 Banking Outlook Conference, discussing banking regulation and supervision.
An international attorney from Pakistan discusses her journey and career aspirations in international banking and fintech on the Money in Banking Law podcast.
This episode explains Regulation O, which restricts bank loans to insiders to prevent self-dealing and bank failures.
Joe Silvia speaks with Chris Casey about DOJ actions against financial institutions and a statute used against banks.
Joe Silvia interviews Veronica Law about her practice in commercial and industrial lending, focusing on loan packages secured by commercial real estate.
Joe Silvia and Mauro Wolff discuss the Genius Act and its impact on stablecoins and the financial system.