The Senate Banking Committee today advanced a group of five nominees for banking-related posts, including Lisa Fairfax and Hester Peirce as Securities and Exchange Commission members, Amias Gerety as assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions and Jay Lerner as inspector general at the FDIC. Voting “no” to the group of nominees were Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), David Vitter (R-La.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Lawmakers seek study of bank-fintech partnerships
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced legislation to require banking agencies to study partnerships between financial technology companies and small- to medium-sized banks and credit unions to see how such arrangements could improve communities.








