Banking Politics & Policy News
American Banker's Politics & Policy coverage delivers news and analysis on how legislative action, federal agency rulemaking, regulatory politics, and public policy debates shape banking strategy, risk, competition, and compliance. Coverage explores congressional priorities, executive branch initiatives, regulatory agency actions, and the political forces that shape and impact the operating environment for financial institutions, payments companies, fintechs and distributed finance companies.
Bank leaders must navigate a dynamic policy environment where congressional action, regulatory priorities, and political forces influence capital standards, supervisory expectations, digital asset frameworks, deposit insurance, consumer rules, and competitive dynamics.
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A Minnesota trade group and its co-plaintiff, Lake Central Bank, signaled that they plan to appeal a district court's dismissal of their lawsuit against the FDIC. The case involves the agency's guidance on nonsufficient funds fees.
June 6
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule pursuant to its broader open banking proposal Wednesday that would require standard-setting bodies to include public interest consumer groups and others to receive bureau recognition.
June 5
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As the private credit market swells, federal regulators and lawmakers continue to debate how and whether to apply oversight and heightened scrutiny to the market. But whether anything happens depends on whether President Biden wins a second term.
June 4
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Monday completed its rule establishing a nationwide database for a wide swath of financial companies — including payments companies, debt collectors, auto lenders — that have faced regulatory or legal penalties for consumer-related infractions.
June 3
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A bill to draw crypto's jurisdictional lines between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is pitting increasingly crypto-friendly Democrats against consumer protection hawks in the Senate.
June 3
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In this month's roundup of top banking news: a Supreme Court ruling on CFPB funding, TD Bank's money laundering woes, an FDIC workplace probe reveals a culture of misconduct and more.
June 3
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Numisma, a Connecticut-chartered uninsured bank, was granted a Federal Reserve master account last week — the first bank with a novel charter to do so since the Fed issued its master account guidelines in 2022. Whether others can do the same is an open question.
June 2
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As stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies enter the mainstream, lawmakers in Illinois have imposed a new transaction tax on digital assets. It will raise costs for everyday consumers and drive away businesses.
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Yes, banks' capital burden will decline, leaving more potential funds available for lending. But the big question is which banks will find a way to deploy those funds to generate meaningful returns.
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Restrictions that limit access to private market investments are harmful to ordinary investors, who are denied better returns. They also seal off a large potential source of funding for long-term infrastructure investments.
