Rep. Luetkemeyer Introduces CLEARR Act
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) yesterday introduced the ABA-advocated CLEARR Act (H.R. 2133), which would provide relief from certain rules and...
Community Banking
Trump Orders Reviews of Dodd-Frank Liquidation Authority, SIFI Designation
President Trump today ordered the Treasury Department to conduct reviews of the Dodd-Frank Act’s Orderly Liquidation Authority and its process...
ABA Provides Treasury with Recommendations to Promote Economic Growth
In a detailed letter today to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, ABA provided a number of recommendations to improve banks’ regulation...
Advocacy Starts Locally
Jay Jenkins’ recipe for advocacy success: start early, engage locally and keep it bipartisan.
Fed’s Powell: Some Post-Crisis Regs ‘Unnecessarily Burdensome’
Noting that the U.S. financial system is “without a doubt far stronger” than it was before the crisis, Federal Reserve...
Hensarling’s Choice Act Includes Key ABA Priorities
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) today released the latest legislative text of his Financial Choice Act, a...
ABA Submits Bipartisan Economic Growth Ideas to Crapo, Brown
ABA today urged the leaders of the Senate Banking Committee to focus on expanding portfolio mortgage lending, modernizing rules on...
Fed Survey: Small Biz Performance, Loan Applications Tick Down
Small business performance and financing success rates dipped slightly in 2016, according to the latest Small Business Credit Survey released...
A Handcrafted Banking Turnaround
How Blaine Jackson helped save a North Carolina community bank and rebuild its connection with customers and investors.
