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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The Block CEO said companies will need fundamentally fewer workers in the AI age. The question is, how many fewer?
March 3
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If the next phase of digital money policy is to succeed, it must grapple with a simple truth: People do not experience money through legal categories. They experience it through use. That's a fact that supervision must account for.
March 3
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Experts say that compliance with a potential executive order being considered by the White House that would require banks to collect citizenship information would be costly, especially for community banks.
March 3
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The Iran conflict is more likely to have an indirect effect on banks, one that may take years to show up as the ramifications filter through the economy
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Markets were bracing for the chaos of a regional war; banks may be the target of sophisticated cyberattacks, experts warn.
March 1
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Though changes to bank capital rules previewed by Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman in February are being viewed as welcome, experts say other more significant hurdles — not all of them regulatory — are keeping banks on the sidelines of mortgage servicing and lending.
February 27
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The proposed national trust charter company would be a wholly owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley. The application was filed on Feb. 18.
February 27
