The Obama administration today announced the nominations of Brian Quintenz and Chris Brummer to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Quintenz is the founder and managing principal of Washington, D.C.-based Saeculum Capital Management LLC and a former aide to Rep. Deborah Price. Brummer is a professor at Georgetown University Law School, with a background in international trade.
FinCEN issued an alert for financial institutions on bulk cash smuggling and repatriation by Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations. It also issued an advisory on reporting suspicious activity related to the terrorist organization ISIS.
U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in March after two consecutive months of expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said.
Construction spending in February was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2.19 trillion, 0.7% above the revised January estimate, the Commerce Department said
Among the deals announced were proposed bank acquisitions in Oklahoma and Tennessee and the merger of two Massachusetts mutuals.
The CFPB does not have the authority to prohibit contractual provisions in agreements for consumer financial products or services that waive “substantive” consumer legal rights and protections, so it should rescind a proposed rule attempting to do just...
ABA is urging the CFPB’s current leadership to withdraw a proposed interpretive rule that would expand Electronic Fund Transfer Act protections to new digital payment mechanisms, such as those involving stablecoins and certain credit card rewards points.
