News Topic: Regulatory guidance

The Senate confirmed Jospeh Otting, a former business partner of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. ... Read full article

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer is calling on bank regulators to draw up a list of guidance going back 20 years to determine whether it should be submitted under the Congressional Review Act. ... Read full article

The Fearless Girl sculpture represents much to many. For Maria Vullo, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, it is a reminder of herself as a girl finding her voice and as an adult using her voice to fight for what she ... Read full article

A long-term discussion about rethinking rules of the credit market is worth having, but for right now Congress should restore clarity by correcting the Second Circuit’s mistake. ... Read full article

A Fed committee studying Libor’s replacement has dwelled heavily on the potential impact to the derivatives market. Loans may become a bigger part of the conversation later this year, but the panel plans to leave a lot of the specifics up to lenders. ... Read full article

The group representing large banks argued in a report Friday that overlapping regulations are hurting the industry's efforts to deal with cyberthreats. ... Read full article

Banks in the U.S. should get ahead of potential open banking regulation by building application programming interfaces now. A preemptive strategy will give banks more flexibility. ... Read full article

The Government Accountability Office has agreed to a request by a GOP lawmaker to examine whether congress can reject regulators' guidance. ... Read full article

The ability of federal agencies to interpret the Volcker Rule and other provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act could be a positive for advocates of deregulation. ... Read full article

Democrats in the House and Senate introduced a bill Tuesday that would get rid of an obscure legislative process that has handcuffed rulemakings from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other regulators. ... Read full article

The GOP is working on a plan that could extend the Congressional Review Act's reach so that it may overturn certain policies all the way back to 1996. ... Read full article

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. ... Read full article

Archaic regulatory frameworks are curbing progress in fintech. We must modernize our rules so they address an internet- or mobile-based economy. ... Read full article

Community bankers want a two-year span between exams for small banks in good standing. Regulators, however, are reluctant to revert to pre-crisis policies. ... Read full article