Financial reform

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. Comments are excerpted from reader response sections of AmericanBanker.com articles and our social media platforms.

The Consumer Bankers Association says the “whipsaw effect” of having a single director who can quickly tack the CFPB in one direction or another can make it challenging to plan out budget expenditures and determine which products and services they should invest in and offer.

Democrats may not be able to score many legislative wins in this Congress, but they appear set on slowing the process down to a snail's pace, particularly when it comes to financial appointments and rollback of the Dodd-Frank Act.

At the very least, President Trump's executive order on Dodd-Frank is liable to make it tougher to reach compromise on regulatory reform. In the long run, it's helping to push Democrats further to the left.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is preparing a new financial reform law; change could free up $100 billion in bank capital that could be returned to shareholders.

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