House Budget Committee chairman announces he won’t seek re-election

Mutual Bancorp in Massachusetts and Bluestone Bank to merge; First Financial in Indiana agrees to buy CedarStone Financial in Tennessee.

Proposed deal also would reverse the Trump administration's decision to lay off more than 4,000 federal employees, including at the CDFI Fund.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is currently reviewing a possible deal with FICO to implement the FICO 10T credit scoring model for mortgages, according to a post on X by FHFA Director Bill Pulte.

The Senate cleared a key procedural hurdle needed to end the government shutdown after several Democrats reached a funding deal with Republicans.

A proposal to create a nationwide cap on credit card interest rates would hurt millions of Americans by cutting off access to credit, President Trump’s former campaign adviser Steve Moore said in a new report.

Passage of a new regulatory framework for stablecoins likely won’t lead to a flood of bank customers pulling their money out of deposit accounts and into the digital currency, Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran said.