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A one-page outline of priorities for Trump's inauguration day obtained American Banker includes financial policy items, including firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, issuing a "reset" of that agency and designating crypto as a "national priority."

Citing concerns about going outside its statutory mandate, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors voted to leave the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System.

The incoming Trump administration's 'agency review team' has landed and is expected to name an acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republicans on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or the Federal Trade Commission are among the most likely candidates.

Shift4, whose CEO Jared Isaacman has been nominated by President-elect Trump to head NASA, will pay $750,000 to resolve claims that the fintech didn't report payments to the relatives of its executives.

The president-elect has announced members of his senior leadership team at the Treasury, who'll work alongside Scott Bessent, his pick for secretary.

Economists say the U.S. economy is leaving 2024 healthy, with unemployment low, inflation manageable and growth robust. Unknown variables — including the depth and scope of President-elect Donald Trump's immigration and tariff policies — could change that course, but likely not until 2026.

Proposals to streamline U.S. banking regulators have resurfaced with the Trump administration's focus on efficiency, but experts and history suggest such changes are unlikely amid political and industry resistance.

The industry hopes that the bigger hurdles to bank mergers under President Biden will fade in the new administration. But populist opposition to consolidation in the tech sector could spill over into banking.

The long-time bank and financial services technology executive has a record for cutting costs and supporting rapid automation, skills that could be put to work at the 90-year-old agency.

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Frank Bisignano, the chief executive officer of fintech and payments company Fiserv Inc., to be the commissioner of the Social Security Administration.