Dodd-Frank

Warren fires off 100-plus questions for CFPB's Mulvaney

04/24/18

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney to clarify his philosophy on enforcement, provide details on the high pay for political appointees and answer other questions.

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Reg relief in limbo as House, Senate refuse to budge

04/24/18

House Republicans are continuing to push the Senate to add more measures to a bill to give regulatory relief to community banks.

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Mulvaney to drop public complaints against firms, change CFPB name

04/24/18

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney announced a trio of significant changes to the CFPB.

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Luetkemeyer 'actively pursuing' gavel of House banking panel

04/24/18

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer said Tuesday that he's interested in the panel's top spot when Chairman Jeb Hensarling retires at the end of the year.

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Clock's ticking: White House should name a permanent CFPB director

04/20/18

If President Trump doesn't name a director before the midterm elections, he could lose his best shot at reshaping the bureau long term.

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'Republicans are feckless': Comments of the week

04/19/18

Readers react to the Senate overriding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's auto lending guidance, weigh in on House efforts to reform the Dodd-Frank Act and debate technology being used to replace new branches.

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‘Don’t let the bastards get you down’: Cam Fine says goodbye to D.C.

04/18/18

The outgoing head of the ICBA reflects on how technology and partisan politics have changed policymaking over the past 15 years.

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Fed weighs more transparency, less subjectivity for stress tests: Quarles

04/16/18

The Federal Reserve is considering allowing banks a chance to comment on stress tests before they take them and dropping any qualitative review for the largest banks’ performance, according to Randal Quarles, the central bank’s vice chairman for banking supervision.

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Congress won't repeal Dodd-Frank. Why does Paul Ryan say it will?

04/13/18

Suggestions that Republicans are working to unwind Dodd-Frank could indicate a vote on a bipartisan regulatory relief bill is near.

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House passes bill giving Fed authority over Volcker Rule

04/13/18

The bill, which also exempts community banks from the trading ban named for former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, would go a step further than the regulatory relief bill that passed the Senate.

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