Cohn: President Close to Filling Community Bank Seat on Fed Board
The White House is close to naming a community banker to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, National Economic Council...
Policy
Revised OCC Exam Policy Aligns Ratings with CRA Purposes
The OCC has changed its Community Reinvestment Act supervision policies to ensure a “logical nexus” between banks’ CRA-related activities and...
Rep. McHenry Introduces Credit Reporting Bill in Wake of Equifax Breach
As the fallout continues from the Equifax data breach, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) yesterday introduced a bill making several changes...
ABA Offers Three Regulatory Fixes for Volcker Rule
In a letter to Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell today, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols welcomed Powell’s commitment to...
ABA Seeks Additional Tweak to MSRB Rule Exception
In comments filed with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board this week, ABA welcomed the MSRB’s acknowledgement of ABA concerns about...
House Panel Passes Eight ABA-Backed Bills
The House Financial Services Committee today advanced eight ABA-backed regulatory reform bills, including several that ABA and the state bankers...
Newsbytes Podcast: The Separation of Banking and…Coffee?
On the latest episode of the ABA Newsbytes Podcast, Evan Sparks and Shaun Kern discuss the CFPB's small-dollar lending rule,...
Gallup: Nearly Half of Americans Say Regulation Excessive
A 45 percent plurality of Americans say there is too much government regulation of business, according to a Gallup poll...
Survey: Three in Four U.S. Voters Say Tax Reform Should Be Priority for Congress
Nearly three-fourths of U.S. registered voters believe that passing tax reform should be the top or an important priority for...
CFTC Chief Commits to Keeping ‘De Minimis’ Threshold Through 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will keep the swap dealer de minimis threshold at $8 billion at least through the...
