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President Trump is scheduled Friday to order a review of Dodd-Frank and a halt to the Obama fiduciary rule. A signing ceremony is set for noon following a meeting of more than a dozen top corporate executives.
February 3 -
President to sign executive order Friday to roll Dodd-Frank as battle lines form over various sections of the act; Deutsche Bank's John Cryan issues an "especially contrite" apology for the German bank's past mistakes.
February 3 -
A movement is afoot to eliminate the Federal Insurance Office, which was established by the Dodd-Frank Act, but here’s why that would be a mistake.
February 2
Center for American Progress -
The long-running feud between banks and fintech companies over screen scraping is morphing into a more nuanced and important conversation about how to exchange consumers' financial data securely and fairly.
January 27 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is drunk on power. Let’s return the agency’s regulatory responsibilities to the states and those agencies covering the relevant industries.
January 23
FreedomWorks Regulatory Action Center -
Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin struck a pro-banking industry tone during testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday while tangling with lawmakers over foreclosures, offshore accounts and other issues.
January 20 -
Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin struck a pro-banking industry tone during testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday while tangling with lawmakers over foreclosures, offshore accounts and other issues.
January 19 -
House Republicans charge CFPB director broke federal law in effort to fire him; consulting firms total the costs and savings from technology; German chemist finds the secret behind money's aroma.
January 19 -
Top Democrats vowed Tuesday to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, predicting Director Richard Cordray will file a lawsuit if he were fired by Donald Trump after he is sworn in as president.
January 17 -
Leadership of the Senate Banking Committee came into fuller view on Tuesday with the announcement of subcommittee assignments.
January 17 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren rallied progressives on Tuesday night to launch a campaign to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Dodd-Frank Act.
January 11 -
The effort to end regulatory absolutism will most likely succeed if it is framed as a pro-economy reform, with members of both political parties driving the train.
January 11
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Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions R-Ala., could pose a roadblock for marijuana businesses seeking financial services, but might also end a controversial Justice Department program targeting payment processors and financial institutions.
January 10 -
The Dodd-Frank Act is just the latest in a long string of policy out of Washington that harmed the greatest banking system devised by man.
January 10
Louisiana Bankers Association -
The persistent opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — which has been fierce since day one — has been puzzling, and has been cloaked in misleading arguments about the structure of the agency.
January 9
Senate Banking Committee -
The dominance of the sector by the Big Four accounting firms poses its own systemic-risk concerns and prompts questions about how other mega-companies are audited.
January 9
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The House Financial Services Committee will see a shuffling of deck chairs among the leadership of its subcommittees in the new Congress as it also welcomes ten new Republican members.
January 6 -
The incoming administration has two vacancies on the Federal Reserve to fill right off the bat, but observers said that who President-elect Donald Trump chooses to fill those slots will be the deciding factor as to whether other board members serve out their terms or create additional vacancies.
January 6 -
Donald Trump's victory is forcing observers to recast predictions for the new year. Following is a guide to which policymakers to watch and who is poised to make the biggest impact in 2017.
January 6 -
Any method for unwinding too-big-to-fail institutions that tries to avoid bailouts is a fool's errand. A more effective path may be reducing the size of TBTF banks or regulating them as utilities.
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