In a comment letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today -- the ninth of 12 that the association will submit in response to the bureau’s ongoing feedback initiative -- ABA encouraged the bureau to update the regulations and related commentaries it inherited from other federal agencies on a regular basis as issues and questions arise and markets evolve.

A group of 103 lawmakers yesterday wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeking further clarity on how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to websites.

In a move long sought by ABA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is formally seeking public comment on whether its rule implementing the Fair Housing Act's discriminatory effects standard is consistent with the Supreme Court decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project.

Giving her first public remarks since becoming FDIC chairman two weeks before, Jelena McWilliams today previewed several elements of her agenda at an industry conference in Washington, D.C.

As part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ongoing feedback initiative, ABA and its transaction banking subsidiary BAFT, joined by the Clearing House and the Consumer Bankers Association, urged the CFPB to make several much-needed rule changes to its remittance rule.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should consider whether the rules it has written since 2011 are “consistent with the law, clear, and whether they promote the financial interests of consumers in a strong, vibrant, and innovative market that offers the variety of financial products and services that consumers want and value,” the American Bankers Association said in a comment letter to the bureau today.

While its efforts to modernize Community Reinvestment Act regulations proceed along a separate track, the OCC today issued a bulletin to clarify current OCC policies and processes for assessing banks’ CRA performance.

The Federal Reserve Board today approved a final rule limiting the amount of credit exposure that the nation’s largest banks can have to each other and to other counterparties.

The Federal Reserve should clarify that agency guidance and other statements not issued via notice-and-comment rulemaking do not establish binding legal standards, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) said in a letter to Fed leadership yesterday.

Reps. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) and Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) yesterday introduced an ABA-supported bill that would update several elements of the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering laws and regulations.