Senate Banking Committee

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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Is a hearing on pot banking as far as GOP will go?

07/23/19

Despite the Senate Banking Committee’s willingness to discuss the issue, Republican support for legislation is still in question.

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Senators press Fed's Powell on real-time payments

07/22/19

A group of senators on the Banking Committee sent a letter to the central bank chairman grilling him on the agency's efforts to develop a real-time payments system.

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Despite outcry, Congress unlikely to block Facebook's crypto plan

07/19/19

Lawmakers from both parties strongly criticized Libra this week, but largely steered clear of proposals to stop it.

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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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Facebook crypto exec meets congressional firing squad

07/16/19

Resistance to Libra on the Senate Banking Committee was bipartisan, and other takeaways from Tuesday’s hearing.

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Facebook won’t launch crypto service until regulators satisfied, exec says

07/15/19

David Marcus, who oversees Facebook’s digital wallet, plans to tell Congress that the company will roll out Libra only after it has "received appropriate approvals.”

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Will Libra force Congress to act on data protection?

07/14/19

Almost two years after the Equifax breach led to a congressional uproar but minimal policy change, the protracted fight to enact data security and privacy reform has a new bogeyman.

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Pot banking hearing is on Crapo’s radar

07/11/19

The head of the Senate Banking Committee said the panel could examine an industry-supported cannabis banking bill "relatively soon."

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Libra takes a beating on Capitol Hill (again)

07/11/19

For the second straight day, concerns about Facebook's cryptocurrency project dominated lawmakers’ questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

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