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The Securities and Exchange Commission, having already approved spot bitcoin ETFs, ought to follow through and grant the same approval to spot ethereum funds. Doing so would create a new surge of investment, with positive economic impacts.

The bill, which would allow uninsured trust companies to issue stablecoins, represents a perilous departure from historically sound financial regulatory policies, and would open the door to potentially catastrophic market disruptions.

Community Financial Development Institutions' mission-driven lending has traditionally been a small segment of the lending market. That's beginning to change, but plugging into secondary lending markets might not be the kind of change communities need.

Part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mandate is to educate consumers by providing reliable information. With its credit card late fee "report" and the associated rulemaking, it has failed to live up to that responsibility.

Branch office deposit data is among the most confidential information at a bank, especially those with many branches. Why have regulators made this sensitive competitive data public for banks and thrifts annually for over 50 years but not for credit unions?

A "true" stablecoin would benefit the economy by improving the money supply, facilitating frictionless payments and lowering the cost of borrowing fiat currency.

The central bank is merely an instrument of Congress when it comes to setting card interchange fees. Only by making lawmakers feel the heat will the industry see meaningful change.

There is fundamental work involved in laying a modern data foundation and adopting a flexible, data-driven, cloud-based IT architecture suitable for AI implementation. Most banks aren't there yet.

Banks rely on fee income to a greater or lesser extent depending on business model, and the Biden administration is intent on cutting consumer fees across the economy. But that push might hamper another administration priority: financial inclusion.

As the Federal Housing Finance Agency considers revising Federal Home Loan bank membership standards, it should consider the benefits of scale that large member banks make possible.