FOMC releases tentative meeting schedule for 2025, 2026

Overall activity remained in expansion and is firmly above year-ago levels. Strong services business activity will continue to support loan demand, but elevated costs and weakening labor demand will have negative implications for consumer lending.

ABA urged the Federal Communications Commission not to impose additional regulation on foreign call centers belonging to banks and other non-telecommunications companies.

As Senate prepares to consider digital asset legislation, a national survey shows Americans support rules that protect the bank deposits that drive local lending and economic activity.

President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to take steps to counter the potential cybersecurity threats posed by artificial intelligence, including by giving community banks the tools they need to protect themselves.

ABA offered several recommendations to improve a proposed rule governing what factors the Treasury Department will use to evaluate rules for state-qualified stablecoin issuers.

The FDIC, Federal Reserve and OCC said they have jointly updated several interagency documents to remove reference to reputational risk as part of a broader push to prevent alleged debanking.