ABA, ICBA Oppose Back-Door Increase in CU Business Lending
ABA and the Independent Community Bankers of America wrote to the House Appropriations Committee on Friday opposing the use of...
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House Panel Passes Patent Reform Bill
By a bipartisan 24-8 vote, the House Judiciary Committee yesterday approved the Innovation Act (H.R. 9), which would seek to...
ABA Urges Passage of Bill Creating TRID ‘Hold Harmless’ Period
ABA and several other trade groups yesterday urged the House Financial Services Committee to advance H.R. 2213, a bipartisan bill...
House Hearing Today to Focus on ABA ‘Agenda’ Bills
ABA submitted a statement for the record in today’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on protecting consumer financial choices.
House Approves Measure Limiting Disparate Impact Analysis
By a 231-195 vote, the House yesterday passed an amendment to a government spending bill that would prevent the use...
ABA: Basel Proposal on Interest Rate Risk ‘Overly Prescriptive’
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision yesterday proposed an interest rate risk capital requirement, which ABA deemed “out of line...
Senate Panel Passes Patent Reform Bill
By a bipartisan 16-4 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the PATENT Act (S. 1137), which would seek to...
Congressional Democrats Unveil Narrow Regulatory Relief Bill
Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee yesterday released a relatively narrow regulatory relief...
Fed’s Fischer Defends Post-Crisis Regulations
Warning against “the mistake of believing that we have put an end to financial crises” at the International Monetary Conference...
Agencies Begin Third Phase of Expanded EGRPRA Review
The Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC on Friday launched the third round of comments in the decennial Economic Growth and...
