Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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Jonathan Gould, who's worked in the crypto industry and has advocated for more fintech and crypto-friendly regulation of banks, was confirmed by the Senate Thursday. He is expected to both continue deregulating the banking sector and encouraging bank-fintech partnerships.
July 10 -
New Jersey state lawmakers have introduced a state-level Community Reinvestment Act that would include online lenders and credit unions — who are exempt from the federal law — in its scope.
July 9 -
House Republicans overcame internal divisions to narrowly pass President Trump's tax and spending package Thursday afternoon. The measure would cut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding level, among other provisions.
July 3 -
A Federal Reserve proposal to calculate stress capital buffers would mean that the banking system could be less likely to withstand an economic shock, the Democratic senator said.
July 3 -
The Senate passed President Trump's tax and spending bill Tuesday, but questions around Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funding, 1071 delay and remittance taxes remain as GOP leaders scramble to pass the bill out of the House before Trump's July 4 deadline.
July 1 -
Kevin Fromer, who has headed the Financial Services Forum since 2017, announced his departure Monday. Fromer transformed the Financial Services Forum to advance the interests of the largest U.S. banks.
June 30 -
The Senate Banking Committee is now proposing to cut the cap by which the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can request funds from the Federal Reserve to 6.5% of the Federal Reserve's operating budget after its opening bid of 0% was rejected by the Senate parliamentarian.
June 27 -
As the Federal Reserve considers changes to the supplemental leverage ratio, Fed Board Chair Jerome Powell said that effort is one piece of a broader deregulation package that will also address the Basel III capital rules.
June 25 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified in the House Tuesday on the heels of yet another pointed social media post from President Donald Trump. But House Republicans largely avoided landing political blows against the central bank chair.
June 24 -
The Federal Reserve chair appears before the House Financial Services Committee for his first of two days of testimony on Capitol Hill this week, part of his biannual monetary policy report to Congress.
June 24
