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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Americans for Financial Reform say in an amicus brief that the Second Circuit should revisit a 30-year old decision ruling that loan participations were not securities.
February 28 -
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry's, R-N.C., bill would overrule state privacy rules.
February 24 -
Jodie Harris is leaving the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund this spring to be president of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp.
February 24 -
House majority whip Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., introduced a similar bill last year before joining House leadership in this Congress.
February 22 -
The Senate Banking Committee member, a Democrat from Montana, helped pass a bill that loosened Dodd-Frank restrictions for larger regionals and community banks.
February 22 -
Some Republicans wrote to the FBI, asking for an investigation into Dominic Ng, who was recently appointed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's Business Advisory Council, citing allegations he worked for two Chinese intelligence operations front groups.
February 17 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., specifically called out acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu, saying that he "needs to learn how to say no to anticompetitive bank mergers."
February 15 -
Senate Banking panel ranking member Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., called on Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler to appear before the committee.
February 14 -
The regulatory authority could reinstate the ability to impose banklike regulation on firms it finds to be 'systemically important.'
February 10 -
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson said that Federal Home Loan Banks benefit from the implied guarantee of the U.S. government.
February 10 -
The president urged Congress to pass a law that would reduce credit card late fees to $8.
February 8 -
Coinbase, Paxos, MetaBank and PayPal all claim the primary purpose exception, which allows companies to place deposits at banks without limits applied to brokered deposits.
February 6 -
Sens. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., take seats on the Senate Banking Committee.
February 2 -
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said that if legislation would increase spending, lawmakers need to offset that spending within the committee's jurisdiction.
February 1 -
The group, led by Senate Banking Chairman Sen. Sherrod Brown, said nonperforming loans sold to single family housing rental businesses or private equity firms results in the displacement of homeowners.
February 1 -
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Kennedy, R-La., asked Silvergate if the bank knew about FTX's alleged misuse of customer funds.
January 31 -
The bill would lower the number of required meetings for credit union boards of directors, and passed via a voice vote.
January 31 -
Repo markets and the bank deposit business, in particular, would be upended if the U.S. were to default on its debt, experts say.
January 27 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Silvergate's connection with crypto and the traditional banking system raises the specter of a crypto collapse.
January 25 -
AB - Policy & RegulationAlongside the merger, Orrick is launching a unit focused on regulatory advice.
January 19
