Marcel Duhamel, a partner in the Vorys Cleveland office, recently earned his Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), joining the ranks of more than 13,000 professionals worldwide who currently hold the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) certifications.

In a proposal reminiscent of the recent comprehensive changes to Ohio banking law that effectively eliminated legal differences between Ohio-chartered banks, savings banks, and savings and loans, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on September 10, 2018, issued a proposal to enable federal savings associations (FSAs) with consolidated assets of $20B or less to, in effect, opt in to becoming full national banks with the same rights and privileges as national banks and subject to the same “…duties, restrictions, penalties, liabilities, conditions and limitations that apply to national banks.”