Claire Williams

The nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to the full Senate, where he's likely to be confirmed along party lines.

A pair of Congressional Review Act resolutions directed at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft and larger participant rules are expected to make it to President Donald Trump's desk.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions will reintroduce a bill at noon today designed to speed up the bank merger review process.

President Donald Trump said he inherited an "economic catastrophe" from his predecessor in a joint address to Congress, though markets fell Tuesday on fears of a budding trade war with Canada and Mexico.

At a court hearing on Monday, lawyers for the Trump administration said statutorily required work is being done by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, while the union claimed the government is trying to shut the agency down.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to no longer pursue its enforcement action against the credit reporting bureau marks the eighth lawsuit dropped by the agency in recent days.

Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is introducing a bill limiting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices authority and another limiting its ability to issue investigative subpoenas.

House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asked trade groups representing large banks to detail how their members' compliance regimes have changed since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was effectively shuttered.

Rising populist sentiment in the Republican Party means that banks will have to work harder to get the same kinds of wins they did in 2017.

Senior Republican House Financial Services Committee lawmakers in a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. gave a series of recommendations that they said would combat so-called "debanking."