Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker today announced that Stacey Facter — SVP for trade products at BAFT, ABA’s global transaction banking subsidiary — has been appointed to the department’s newly formed Trade Finance Advisory Council. The council is comprised of representatives from exporters, banks, trade finance organizations and research institutions, and will provide insights on how to provide expanded access to finance for U.S. exporters.
ABA to Senate Banking: Refine Clarity Act’s stablecoin yield language
ABA and a coalition of financial trade associations asked the Senate Banking Committee to refine the proposed payment stablecoin yield language in the Clarity Act, which prohibits crypto platforms from paying interest or yield to bank deposits on...








