
Neil Haggerty
ReporterNeil Haggerty is the Congress reporter for American Banker. He previously was a financial regulation reporter at MLex Market Insight.
Neil Haggerty is the Congress reporter for American Banker. He previously was a financial regulation reporter at MLex Market Insight.
Nearly a dozen Republicans joined all of the committee's Democrats in supporting the legislation, which would enable banks to serve legal marijuana businesses.
The watchdog’s report — requested by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. — called for civil money penalty authority and better supervision to guard consumer data.
Banks and credit unions may be moving one step closer to federal legislation freeing them to serve legal pot businesses, but the path to enactment is still fraught with huge challenges.
In the second lawsuit of its kind, more than a dozen of the world's largest banks are accused of price fixing on roughly $486 billion of bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The bill by Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and John Kennedy, R-La., would block banks and credit unions with over $10 billion of assets from refusing service to "customers that may not share the same political values."
There’s bipartisan consensus that the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are unsustainable, but that may not be enough for lawmakers to upend the current system.
The House Financial Services panel is considering legislation making it illegal for a federal regulator to penalize a financial institution accepting insured deposits from a legal marijuana business.
The House Financial Services panel is considering legislation making it illegal for a federal regulator to penalize banks that accept FDIC-insured deposits from a legal marijuana business.
First-term Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has sponsored the Prevent Discrimination in Auto Insurance Act in order to prevent “undue burden” on low-income individuals seeking auto insurance.
A bipartisan group of senators is proposing legislation to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to weigh alternatives before putting a large, complex nonbank under Federal Reserve supervision.