Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Ending the separation of banking and commerce would open the door to dangerous concentrations of power and influence, and would threaten financial and economic stability as well as access to credit for consumers and Main Street businesses.
May 9 -
When supposed "fraud" becomes the headline, real solutions get pushed to the margins. In the case of housing, the real crisis is about housing affordability and supply.
May 9 -
The Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's rules on bank mergers passed 52-47.
May 8 -
The vote to invoke cloture on the Senate's stablecoin bill failed 48-49, delaying the final passage of the crypto legislation.
May 8 -
The industry and its regulators need to acknowledge the danger presented by ultrarealistic deepfake technology and implement new layers of transaction authentication.
May 8 -
Julian, the bank's onetime audit chief, recently agreed to settle with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a tiny percentage of the $7 million the agency had been seeking. In an interview, he spoke about the expensive legal fight and who bears responsibility for the bank's fake-accounts scandal.
May 8 -
The Treasury secretary tells the House Financial Services Committee that he is vetting candidates to fill the role and says acting Chair Travis Hill has been effective.
May 7 -
The last time someone decided to gut a major financial services regulatory agency, we got the Great Recession. DOGE cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could trigger similar pain.
May 7 -
Tokenization is a natural fit for the private credit market, and could help create new investment opportunities. But regulators must create clear rules of the road.
May 6 -
Despite its commitment to change its stress testing program, the Federal Reserve is defending its current practices in court. That argument raises thorny legal questions about whether stress tests are more like rules or adjudications.
May 6 -
A federal judge has ordered FDATR, a now-defunct student loan debt relief provider, to pay $43 million in restitution and fees, bucking the trend of cases brought by the Biden administration-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau being dropped.
May 5 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Trump plans to make changes to the rule governing consumer financial data rights despite rare bipartisan support for the regulation.
May 5 -
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that tight bank regulations are driving the growth of private credit, which he thinks reinforces the case for deregulation.
May 5 -
Curve, a London-based fintech, has added a mobile wallet to its flagship product that lets consumers switch cards after the point of purchase.
May 5 -
The administration is pitching a $26.7 billion reduction to the regulator's funding for rental assistance, public housing and elderly and disability housing.
May 2 -
With vast amounts of capital locked in privately held companies, both employees of those companies and average investors would benefit from a loosening of the rules restricting private investment.
May 2 -
After building capital for years in anticipation of higher requirements, banks now face a lighter regulatory outlook under President Trump. But experts don't expect capital levels to come down quickly.
May 2 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will not enforce or supervise the 1071 small business lending rule, it announced in a press release. The rule requires collecting data on the race, ethnicity, gender and LGBTQ status of loan applicants.
May 1 -
Ex-National Credit Union Administration board member Todd Harper outlined legal, economic and political dangers of recent firings of independent regulators.
May 1 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sided with two trade groups in asking a federal court to vacate the medical debt rule. Consumer groups have asked to intervene and a judge has not yet ruled on the motion.
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