ABA staff recently met with officials at the Treasury Department, which is in the process of issuing recommendations related to capital markets regulatory reform in response to President Trump’s executive order on core principles for financial regulation.

Thanks to hard lessons from Hurricane Katrina, banks today are more resilient than ever.

Speaking to the annual monetary policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., today, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen offered a broad defense of the post-financial crisis regulatory framework but embraced “appropriate adjustments” as the economy and global landscape evolve.

As currently designed, the supplementary leverage ratio for the largest banking organizations risks harming banks’ role as a safe haven in a future crisis, wrote ABA VP Hugh Carney in an American Banker op-ed today.

The Federal Reserve today proposed a new supervisory rating scale for large bank holding companies with more than $50 billion in assets.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin yesterday, a group of bipartisan lawmakers urged Treasury to prioritize policy changes that would increase coordination between regulatory agencies conducting bank examinations to help reduce the compliance burden on financial institutions.

In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago today, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell said that regulators should increase their efforts to monitor for liquidity risk among central counterparties by conducting stress tests on those entities.

Foreign investment in the U.S. banking system helps to diversify the financial system and drive economic growth, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said today in remarks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C.

Regulations based on asset size are “inappropriate and needlessly burdensome” for many banks with non-complex business models, and ultimately lead to higher costs and fewer choices for consumers, ABA said in written testimony submitted for a Senate Banking Committee hearing on regulatory relief for midsize and regional banks today.

The Treasury Department tonight issued a 150-page report making dozens of recommendations for how Congress and regulatory agencies can streamline bank regulation in a way that promotes economic growth.