Mick Mulvaney

Meet the new crop of bank regulators

12/05/17

More than 10 months into office, the Trump administration’s takeover of banking regulators is effectively complete.

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CFPB's Mulvaney backs congressional repeal of payday lending rule

12/04/17

Mick Mulvaney, the agency's acting director, said he believes the small-dollar lending rule is too far along to roll back through regulation but hopes Congress will repeal it.

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CFPB taps Hensarling aide; CFTC approves bitcoin futures

12/04/17

Brian Johnson joins agency as senior adviser to acting director Mick Mulvaney; CME and Cboe are expected to begin trading bitcoin futures in the next few weeks.

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‘Elections have consequences’: Mulvaney’s plans for the CFPB

12/04/17

How will Mick Mulvaney reshape the consumer watchdog agency? American Banker Editor-in-Chief Rob Blackwell shares his inside-the-Beltway take on the CFPB’s future.

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Another nomination; Quarles warns on bitcoin

12/01/17

Jelena McWilliams, Fifth Third Bancorp’s chief legal officer, is the choice for FDIC chair; digital currencies pose too many risks.

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Dodd, Frank reunite to protest CFPB leadership change

11/30/17

The former heads of the House and Senate banking committees argued Thursday that the Dodd-Frank Act clearly intended to allow the CFPB's deputy director to serve as acting director after the full-time head of the agency departed.

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Five big questions about Mulvaney-led CFPB

11/29/17

With leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resolved by a federal court, the banking industry is eager to find out what interim head Mick Mulvaney plans to do once he gets a handle on the agency, including whether he will delay pending new mortgage rules.

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