May 9, 2025

Politics and policy

Banking

CFPB to amend or reissue 1033 open banking rule, experts say

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to amend, or rescind and reissue, the rule on consumer financial data rights, potentially throwing out years of work under the Biden administration on a regulation that banks have long opposed, experts say.  How the Trump administration will change the open banking rule is still unknown, but there

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Funds

Trump budget suggests eliminating some CDFI funds

WASHINGTON — The White House’s proposed budget pitches eliminating Community Development Financial Institution Fund’s discretionary awards.  In President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, the White House said that past awards have “made race a determinant of access to loan programs to ‘advance racial equity,’ funded products and services that built so-called climate resiliency,’ and framed American

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Finance

House finance budget bill nixes PCAOB, curbs CFPB funding

House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, and chair French Hill, R-Ark. Bloomberg News The House Financial Services Committee passed a budget bill Wednesday that eliminates the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and caps the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s budget at roughly $249 million, a drastic reduction from its recent budgets. Committee

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Mortgage

Mortgage industry changes Trump made in first 100 days

The Trump administration moved swiftly to deliver its deregulatory agenda to the mortgage industry in the president’s first 100 days.  Some of those many changes could lead to lower housing costs, following President Trump’s day one executive order to address the constrained housing market. Other rollbacks of Biden-era initiatives and politically motivated actions however will

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Banking

Warren and banking colleagues scrutinize FDIC over DOGE efforts

A cohort of Democratic Senate Banking Committee members Thursday demanded answers from the nation’s deposit insurer regarding an ongoing Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to cut over a thousand agency staffers. In the letter to acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Travis Hill, Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.; Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; and

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Banking

Ending the separation of banking and commerce myth

The separation of banking and commerce is becoming untenable. As the user experience becomes more digital, the distinction washes out. It all starts to look like data processing, writes Max Bonici, of Davis Wright Tremaine.Adobe Stock There is a pervasive myth that banking and commerce are — and must be — separate in the United

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Loans

Tariffs add pressure on already stressed auto loans

Even before President Trump unveiled his sweeping new tariffs, many Americans were struggling to afford car purchases, putting their loans in growing danger of default. Now hefty tariffs threaten to inflict further pain on U.S. car buyers, which could have negative consequences for auto lenders. “There are nearly unlimited permutations of the knock-on effects,” UBS

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Banking

Senate Banking advances OCC, Treasury nominations

From left: Securities and Exchange Commission Chair-designate Paul Atkins; Comptroller of the Currency-designate Jonathan Gould; Assistant Secretary of Treasury-designate Luke Pettit; and Marcus Molinaro, Federal Transit administrator-designate. Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — The Senate Banking Committee voted to advance the nominations of key bank regulatory roles to the full Senate.  The panel approved the nomination of

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Crypto

Democrats stall stablecoin bill, citing Trump crypto ambitions

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, and House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill, R-Ark. Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — House Republicans couldn’t quickly pass their stablecoin bill out of committee as Democratic lawmakers exhaustively introduced amendments to address fears that President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency ambitions pose a significant conflict of interest.  No votes had been taken

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Banking

N.C. credit unions seek to expand into ‘banking deserts’

The North Carolina House of Representatives this week passed a measure that would allow credit unions to expand into markets underserved by banks./nd700 – stock.adobe.com Credit unions in North Carolina are campaigning to change state law so they can increase services in so-called “banking deserts” — often rural markets where traditional financial services are sparse.

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