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 quarterly data showed bank profits were driven by gains at large firms while credit quality remained mixed, with commercial real estate loan stress at relatively high levels.
May 28 -
The Treasury Department is claiming extensive authority to pry into the private financial information of Americans on the flimsiest of pretexts. It's time for the courts to step in.
May 28
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Agency lawyers called the rule, which was almost a decade in the making, "unlawful" in a court filing.
May 27 -
The Federal Reserve and several industry groups agreed to put an indefinite stay on their legal fight over the annual examination process.
May 27 -
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook said in a speech Friday that the market's response to recent volatility shows resilience, but more study is needed about the financial stability implications of business relationships between banks and nonbanks.
May 23 -
The Supreme Court blocked a lower court injunction reinstating two Democrats who had been fired without cause from the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board, explicitly holding that Federal Reserve Board members would not be affected by the case.
May 23 -
Only by facing the realities of geopolitical uncertainty head-on can we hope to preserve the integrity of the global financial system and enable the flow of capital that underpins prosperity everywhere.
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