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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Elon Musk, formerly head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he will officially leave the federal government after a short but tumultuous tenure. DOGE's actions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are being reviewed in federal court.
May 29
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In a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the American Bankers Association rebuffed state regulators' calls to rescind the agency's broad state preemption rule, defending federal law's supremacy in the dual banking system.
May 29
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The Trump administration's plan to shift $1.6 trillion in student loans could include a sale to a private buyer. If that's the case, any potential purchaser has some serious due diligence to undertake.
May 29
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Analysts awaiting specifics on the "implicit guarantee" for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are split on whether mortgage rates and guarantee fees could rise.
May 29
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What if the guiding narrative of 2,000 years of human history was a slow march toward the worship of money? A new book by Paul Vigna argues that we could fix this problem if we declared an old-fashioned jubilee and simply erased all debts.
May 29
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Banks sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last year to stop the 1033 open banking rule from taking effect. Now the Trump administration plans to kill the rule.
May 29
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During its meeting last month, some members of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee expressed concern about persistent supply chain disruptions while others were confident price growth would be constrained.
May 28
