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...
Policy
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...
Keating: Dodd-Frank SIFI Threshold Is Set Too Low
The Dodd-Frank Act’s asset threshold for systemically important financial institutions is set too low and should be replaced by a...
ABA-Backed Reg Reform Bill Clears Senate Committee
The regulatory reform bill introduced by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) was approved by the committee today. The...
State Associations Welcome Shelby’s Reg Reform Bill
All 53 state bankers associations yesterday expressed their support for the financial regulatory reform proposal offered by Senate Banking Committee...
Sen. Perdue Introduces Bill to Increase Oversight of CFPB
Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) yesterday introduced a bill that would subject the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the congressional appropriations...
