Sen. Chris Dodd, right, speaking at a news conference with Rep. Barney Frank at the White House on March 24, 2010.
There's been a legislative bottleneck since the the crisis-era law went into effect, but Congress has moved forward on a handful of significant changes.
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JOBS Act

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, signed into law by then-President Barack Obama in April 2012, was passed in the wake of the crisis to help small businesses raise funds from the capital markets.
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Sharing of privileged information with CFPB

In December 2012, Congress passed a bill clarifying that attorney-client privilege is not waived when sensitive information is submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Banks had warned that Dodd-Frank did not adequately address the issue, raising questions about whether the same standard used with prudential regulators would still apply. Lawmakers approved a similar measure for nonbanks sharing information with federal and state regulators in 2014.
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ATM fee disclosures

Later in December 2012, lawmakers passed a measure to stop a spate of nuisance lawsuits against banks for failing to provide fee notices on or near ATMs in addition to the onscreen warning.
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A house and vehicles stand in floodwaters due to Hurricane Harvey in Spring, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. A deluge of rain and rising floodwaters left Houston immersed and helpless, crippling a global center of the oil industry and testing the economic resiliency of a state that's home to almost 1 in 12 U.S. workers. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act

Congress modified a flood insurance law in March 2014 to ensure that some homeowners wouldn't suddenly be faced with unaffordable flood insurance premiums. Some community banks had worried that a number of borrowers could default on their mortgages in the face of dramatically increased flood insurance premiums.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, secretary of education nominee for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, not pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. DeVos said raising costs of higher education need to be addressed, according to prepared remarks for her hearing Tuesday e-mailed by Trump transition team. Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg

Swaps pushout

Lawmakers unwound a Dodd-Frank measure banning certain swaps trading within depositories in December 2014, as part of a government funding package known as the "cromnibus." Critics, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., fought vigorously against the inclusion of the provision, but it was ultimately passed with the help of several Democratic colleagues before being signed into law by President Obama. (For the record, Obama opposed the provision but needed the overall bill to be approved.)
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In a string of enforcement actions issued Thursday, the Federal Reserve barred one former banker from the industry for misappropriating confidential supervisory information and fined three others for misappropriating internal bank records.

Capital standards for insurers

Just days after the highly controversial passage of the "swaps pushout" rollback, the White House signed a bill clarifying the Federal Reserve's authority to write capital standards appropriate for insurers, instead of following a banklike model. The Fed gained some oversight of large insurers under Dodd-Frank.
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Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Republican from Texas and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 27, 2017. Mnuchin ruled out prioritizing U.S. debt payments if Congress fails to raise the borrowing limit and repeated his call for quick action by lawmakers. Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg

TRIA reauthorization

Policymakers reauthorized the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act in January 2015, after the terrorism insurance program was briefly allowed to expire. House Republicans, including Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, used the legislation as a vehicle to move an unrelated Dodd-Frank provision ensuring that so-called derivatives end users were not subject to margin requirements.
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Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, speaks during a Senate Banking confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The Federal Housing Finance Agency won't release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from U.S. control without congressional approval even if the Trump administration asks that the mortgage-finance giants be freed, a key agency official said in an interview. Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg

Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization

After a protracted battle, Congress passed a bill to fund the Export-Import Bank in December 2015. The bank faced strong opposition from some Republicans, including Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, then chairman of the Banking Committee, who pushed for the program's funding to lapse that prior summer. Even after the bank's reauthorization, Shelby held up nominations to the bank's board through the end of 2016, preventing the bank from financing large deals.
The SEC is one of several regulators charged with the first phase of a joint rulemaking for the Financial Data Transparency Act.
The SEC is one of several regulators charged with the first phase of a joint rulemaking for the Financial Data Transparency Act.Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

Scrapping SEC's extraction rule

Congress threw out the Securities and Exchange Commission's resource extraction rule — a Dodd-Frank mandate — in February 2017, using the Congressional Review Act. The rule, which had been challenged and overthrown in court and then reissued, would have required energy and mining companies to disclose payments to foreign governments.
A recent court ruling in Illinois advances a conspiracy case against prominent Wall Street banks.
A recent court ruling in Illinois advances a conspiracy case against prominent Wall Street banks.

Tossing CFPB's arbitration rule

In November 2017, lawmakers used the Congressional Review Act to target a second Dodd-Frank measure, this time getting rid of the CFPB's arbitration rule, which banned financial companies from using mandatory arbitration in their contracts.
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