Elizabeth Warren

'Stop sugar coating the reverse mortgage': Comments of the Week

07/25/19

Readers react to BofA defending reverse mortgage borrowers, support the Federal Reserve creating a real-time payments system, advocate for consolidating federal bank agencies and more.

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Democrats try to force Fed's hand on faster payments

07/24/19

Lawmakers including presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren have introduced a bill that would put the Federal Reserve in charge of creating its own real-time payments network.

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Warren warns consumer, corporate debt could cause next crisis

07/22/19

The Democratic presidential candidate argued in a blog post that the U.S. could avoid a recession by canceling most student debt and authorizing regulators to more aggressively monitor leveraged lending.

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'Petulant children playing with matches': Comments of the week

07/18/19

Readers react to House lawmakers attempting to overhaul the credit bureaus, express sarcasm to the Senate Banking Committee eyeing cannabis banking, criticize Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plans to overhaul Wall Street and more.

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Warren makes play to put banking in 2020 spotlight

07/18/19

Warren’s plan unveiled Thursday would be the most significant rewrite of financial services rules since the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.

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Warren bill takes aim at private equity 'vampires'

07/18/19

A centerpiece of her “economic patriotism” bill is to transform private equity firms, which she said will buy a company and bleed it dry before “walking away enriched even as the company succumbs.”

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Where the 2020 Democrats stand on banking issues

07/08/19

Critical comments about Wall Street in the first debates signal an unfriendly political environment for banks. Here is a sample of leading candidates’ financial policy views.

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Warren tells Dimon to stop 'exploiting' with forced arbitration

06/28/19

Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted Jamie Dimon for reviving a policy that pushes JPMorgan Chase's credit card customers into arbitration to resolve disputes instead of the courts.

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'The right to financial services should be universal': Comments of the week

06/27/19

Readers respond to how Congress should address AI, concerns on Facebook's Libra and its logo, a report challenging card fraud prevention and more.

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Do lending algorithms discriminate? Congress seeks answers

06/26/19

After years of largely standing on the sidelines, lawmakers are taking a closer look at whether algorithms used by banks and fintechs to make lending decisions could make discrimination worse instead of better.

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