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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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has long been a target for conservative ire, but dismantling it would require Congress' cooperation.
November 27 -
California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation Clothilde "Cloey" Hewlett will step down Dec. 30.
November 25 -
Reps. Andy Barr, R-Ky., and French Hill, R-Ark., leading Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee, pushed back against Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Martin Gruenberg's characterization of the Synapse collapse in his July brokered deposits proposal.
November 25 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has significantly raised the transaction threshold for its larger participant rule — which defines which firms will be affected — from 5 million annual payments to 50 million.
November 21 -
The House Financial Services Committee dug into regulators' plans for the interim period before President-elect Trump takes office, and lobbed pointed questions at Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Martin Gruenberg, who several members said should have resigned his post amid a sexual harassment scandal at the agency.
November 20 -
In a Senate Judiciary hearing Tuesday morning, some Republican lawmakers signaled openness to joining their Democratic counterparts in supporting the Credit Card Competition Act.
November 19 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said it is "fundamentally unfair" that uninsured depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank got a reprieve from regulators while those at First National Bank of Lindsay did not.
November 18 -
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., whose chances of getting confirmed as attorney general are unclear in the wake of allegations of sex trafficking and a House ethics probe against him, cuts a more populist profile than many expected from a Republican president.
November 14 -
The Arkansas Republican, who could be the next chairman of the top banking panel in the House, could find some areas of agreement with Democratic Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren on issues like failed bank resolution reform.
November 14 -
With Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., occupied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is one step closer to leading Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee.
November 13
