The House today by a vote of 216 to 212 approved the Senate’s 2018 budget resolution, effectively clearing the way for Congress to continue working on tax reform. Today’s action will allow a tax reform bill to pass through the Senate with a simple majority vote, rather than a 60-member majority. The House is expected to release draft language of the bill next week.
Under the final rule, covered institutions may choose one of three options to comply with its requirements, including capping their overdraft fee at a flat $5.
CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said his agency will press forward with rulemakings even as federal banking agencies have paused their major initiatives until after President-elect Trump takes office.
The FDIC was ill-prepared to resolve large regional banks at the time of last year’s failures of Silicon Valley Bank and two other banks, the FDIC Office of Inspector General concluded in a new report.
FinCEN issued Spanish translations of an existing alert to financial institutions on a surge of check fraud schemes involving mail theft and an analysis of the problem.
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in November after rising 0.2% the previous month, and increased 2.7% over the past year, the Labor Department said.
The acquisition of an NFL stadium’s naming rights by a credit union raises the question of why a large tax-exempt institution should have an advantage over its tax-paying competitors, according to a Wall Street Journal opinion column.
