Financial regulations

What banks can expect from the next Fed chairman

11/14/17

Jerome Powell has been in the public eye for decades. But what he would actually do with the job is unknown. American Banker reporter John Heltman explains.

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Equifax takes a hit; Senate tax bill keeps mortgage deduction

11/10/17

Company’s first earnings report since the data breach also discloses lots of suits and investigations; Senate bill also calls for one-year delay in corporate tax rate cut to 20%.

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Did CFPB's Cordray fake out Trump and GOP?

11/09/17

If CFPB Director Richard Cordray does not leave soon - as has been widely expected - it may be that he has used rumors of his possible political aspirations to successfully keep Trump from firing him.

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Senate Democrats oppose effort to quickly confirm Otting to OCC

11/09/17

Five Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee pledged to vote against the confirmation of Joseph Otting as comptroller of the currency.

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Texas banker has plan to battle 'oppressive and stupid' regs

11/09/17

Pat Hickman, CEO of Happy State Bank, wants his institution to remain viable in the face of stifling regulation. As for selling? That'll happen over his dead body, he says.

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Quarles’ regulatory vision; Shakeup at State Street

11/08/17

The Fed’s new chief bank regulator wants to change “the tenor of supervision”; Ron O’Hanley, who was named president this week, will also take over as CEO by the end of 2018.

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Bank-fintech collaboration movement grows with Live Oak-First Data venture

11/07/17

The companies' recently launched partnership furthers the argument that the banking and fintech industries might be better served working together rather than competing.

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Cordray's personal appeal to Trump: Save the arbitration rule

10/30/17

CFPB Director Richard Cordray sent a letter to President Trump Monday asking him to veto a Republican resolution to nullify the bureau's arbitration rule.

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Treasury regulatory review will include fintech policy, official says

10/18/17

The Treasury Department will release a report early next year on opportunities and risks posed by fintech as part of administration efforts to reform the regulatory structure, Craig Phillips said.

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‘There’s a sense of unfairness about it’: Fed's Bullard

10/17/17

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard explains why community banks feel they were hit with unduly tough regulations after the financial crisis.

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