Financial reform

Senate panel approves leadership picks for Fed, OCC

09/07/17

The nominations of Randal Quarles as Federal Reserve Board vice chairman and Joseph Otting as comptroller of the currency will now head to the full Senate.

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Trump’s financial nominees on the Hill: What we learned

07/27/17

Financial regulation is too complex and needs to be retooled to improve access to credit, President Trump’s nominees to two top banking regulators told Capitol Hill on Thursday.

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'The problem with people today': Comments of week

06/02/17

Readers weigh in on the in-store branch model, how community banks hone their message, the difficulty cash-strapped consumers face in finding bank loans, and more.

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Deregulation poses global threat of regulatory arbitrage

05/31/17

In the end, many of the reforms designed to protect the global financial system and leading global economies from future crises could be erased.

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Top Pence adviser blasts FDIC resolution powers

05/25/17

A top Trump administration official on Thursday vowed to roll back FDIC powers to seize and unwind a failing megabank.

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Why the Choice Act is a threat to corporate stewardship

05/04/17

Some shareholders can help increase corporate accountability using a little-known but effective tool called a shareholder proposal. But now this tool is threatened by financial reform legislation.

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Flashback: The day Glass-Steagall died

05/04/17

In November 1999, we covered the repeal of a Depression-era banking law in the style of an obituary. It seemed unthinkable that today we'd be talking about a resurrection.

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House panel approves reg reform bill along party lines

05/04/17

The House Financial Services Committee approved the Financial Choice Act by 34 to 26. While it has enough support to clear the GOP-controlled House, it is unlikely to gain traction in the Senate.

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Congress playing chicken with Dodd-Frank reform

04/07/17

A Senate Republican effort to use an obscure process to restructure the CFPB could derail any bipartisan agreement on targeted changes to the Dodd-Frank Act.

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Republicans may soon target informal regulatory actions: Toomey

03/30/17

With slim odds of getting eight Democrats to support major Dodd-Frank Act reforms, Republicans are turning to other measures to make changes to the 2010 reform law.

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