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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There is a difference between combating discrimination and forcing bankers to ignore problems.
June 3
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Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell's decision to remain on the board he once led combined with a lack of explicit rules governing Fed governance could lead to a power struggle that hasn't been seen in a generation.
June 3
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Analysts said Bill Pulte's new additional role as spy chief will further delay GSE privatization efforts, although that could change if he formally departed.
June 2
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A retrospective paper on the former Federal Reserve chair's tenure offers takeaways that speak directly to his successor's policy agenda.
June 2
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The Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday they had removed references to reputational risk from certain interagency guidance documents, furthering the administration's state goal of eliminating reputational risk from bank supervision.
June 2
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said in a speech Tuesday morning that he doubts the usefulness of stablecoin technology in payments and its ability to expand the reach of the U.S. dollar, a perspective that contrasts with many crypto boosters in the Trump administration.
June 2
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Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte won the White House's favor by acting as an attack dog for the administration, using his agency's data to target President Trump's political enemies with fraud allegations, though those efforts have not withstood judicial scrutiny.
June 2
