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...
Policy
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...
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...
