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 reality of banking is that some customers are riskier and more labor-intensive than some banks want to tolerate. If Congress doesn't like where banks draw the line, it needs to understand what moving it will entail.
February 5
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Committees in both the House and Senate will hold hearings this week about debanking — a term that means different things to different people.
February 4
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said they would try to pass crypto and stablecoin bills in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
February 4
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Tom Krause, the chief executive of Cloud Software Group, and Marko Elez, an engineer who has worked for SpaceX and social-media platform X, have offices in the Treasury Department, according to sources.
February 4
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The senators introduced legislation that would limit the interest rate card issuers are able to charge holders for the next five years.
February 4
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The president's rough-and-tumble trade negotiations have throttled financial markets, causing investors to flock to the safety of dollars and Treasuries. But some economists say this style of policymaking could have hurt the U.S.'s safe haven status in the long run.
February 4
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The House Financial Services Committee released a draft resolution under the Congressional Review Act to cancel the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau's rule limiting bank overdrafts to $5 in most cases.
February 4
