Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is introducing a bill limiting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices authority and another limiting its ability to issue investigative subpoenas.

Banks' latest annual reports, filed in the early weeks of the second Trump administration, provide a window into how the industry is adjusting to a new political climate.

The changing of the guard at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and hope among bankers for mergers and acquisitions activity are popular items this month.

Lawmakers and regulators are cracking down on banks closing consumer accounts, but neither banks nor regulators have hard numbers on how big of a problem debanking really is — or why accounts are closed.

Federal agencies have a little more than two weeks to devise plans for achieving significant staff reductions and cost savings.

The hiring comes roughly a month after Ida Liu resigned and the firm embarked on a regional restructuring.