CFPB Resumes Card Agreement Submissions; Next Deadline Is May 2

The Federal Reserve appealed a federal court ruling striking down Regulation II’s standard for setting debit interchange fees.

Consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.1% in August, the Federal Reserve reported.

Consumer inflation expectations in September increased at the short- and longer-term horizons and were unchanged at the medium-term horizon, according to the New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations.

Fifth Third Bancorp agrees to buy Comerica, proposed acquisitions also announced of banks in Oklahoma and Texas.

The FDIC board voted to advance two proposed rules to formally define “unsafe and unsound practices” and to remove reputational risk from bank supervision.

Net interest margins are the most important external risk facing community banks, according to the Conference of State Bank Supervisors’ 2025 community bank survey. Cybersecurity was the top internal risk.