Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The Treasury secretary criticized post-crisis bank rules as outdated and burdensome, vowing to streamline financial regulation, revamp supervision and reduce constraints on private enterprise.
March 6 -
The nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to the full Senate, where he's likely to be confirmed along party lines.
March 6 -
A pair of Congressional Review Act resolutions directed at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft and larger participant rules are expected to make it to President Donald Trump's desk.
March 6 -
The GENIUS Act is an ill-conceived bill that will allow the largely unregulated sale of stablecoins to the public. The risks it poses for investors, the financial system and the broader economy are unacceptably high.
March 6 -
The chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions will reintroduce a bill at noon today designed to speed up the bank merger review process.
March 6 -
Ahead of a court hearing, the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says he ordered supervisory staff to get back to work. But examiners and supervisors are disputing that work is being done, noting that travel credit cards have been cut off.
March 6 -
Consumer advocates MyPath and the Mississippi Center for Justice have been allowed to intervene in a banking industry lawsuit challenging the CFPB's $5 overdraft fee cap for large financial institutions after the bureau declined to defend the rule.
March 5 -
As home to the world's biggest financial center, New York state is in a uniquely powerful position to hold banks to the climate pledges they now seem prepared to break.
March 5 -
The banking sector has stabilized significantly since the spring of 2023, but elevated interest rates have created lingering issues on bank balance sheets.
March 4 -
The Biden-era suit against Zelle's parent company and its largest bank parent owners sought to require banks to reimburse consumers for "induced fraud," when a consumer is tricked into sending money to someone under false pretenses.
March 4