Politics

Congressional Review Act resolutions to nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft and larger participant rules now go to President Trump for his signature.

President Trump placed a 90-day pause on most of his sweeping tariff package, but for banks and other financial market participants, the threat of volatility remains.

A group of 24 state attorneys general Wednesday called on House members to reject a Senate-passed Congressional Review Act resolution repealing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft cap.

In a speech at the American Bankers Association Washington Summit Wednesday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed economic risks from tariffs, floated capital reforms and urged regulatory relief for community banks.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott said Jonathan McKernan's final confirmation vote to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is "imminent."

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency disclosed a significant email system security breach that revealed sensitive data about federally regulated banks. The breach follows a similar incident at the Treasury Department earlier this year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. aims to ease compliance for large banks, revisit crypto and stablecoin rules, and weigh inflation adjustments to regulatory thresholds.

Bill Pulte, making the announcement as chairman of Fannie Mae, did not provide additional details following earlier rumors of larger layoffs.

As President Donald Trump's tariffs whipsaw bank shares and threaten recession, the House Financial Services Committee chairman told a large room of bankers that efforts like repealing the small business data collection rule and passing legislation to Congressionally appropriate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are among his priorities.

Federal Reserve officials want to see how exactly new trade policies impact the U.S. economy before adjusting interest rates. Markets and monetarists have different ideas about what that might look like.

Last month, the OCC opened the door to national banks interested in engaging with digital assets. That's a good thing, but there is a real need for clear legislative and regulatory guidance so they can move forward safely.

President Donald Trump's tariff moves, a flicker of life at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s future.

Bankers are growing frustrated as President Donald Trump's trade policy causes turmoil in markets and confusion for clients. But banking trade groups in Washington — at least publicly — are remaining silent.

Veterans of the dot-com bubble of the late '90s, the early 2000s recession, the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 shutdown of 2020 say the more things change, the more things stay the same.

Federal regulators' plan to rescind reforms to the anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act implementation rules disappoints community advocates, but gives banks clarity by reverting to longstanding CRA rules.

JPMorgan Chase's CEO emphasized his concerns about geopolitical conflict and brought up recent culture shifts at the bank in his annual letter to shareholders.

"The quicker this issue is resolved, the better because some of the negative effects increase cumulatively over time and would be hard to reverse," the JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO wrote in his annual letter to shareholders.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has chosen to prosecute only a handful of cases as the Trump administration drops other investigations, claiming enforcement is not mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Department of Justice said in a court filing Friday that a February stop-work order from acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought did not entail stopping statutorily mandated work by the bureau, defying earlier testimony.

The central bank wants to let Trump's policies play out across the economy before deciding which way to move interest rates, and it's too soon to know what the impacts will be, the Federal Reserve chair said.