While banks expressed their support of the revised rule, here's who stated that the revision "amplifies risk in the financial system."
Read More »BCFP Issues Advisory on HMDA Exceptions
The guidelines issued by BCFP advise small banks and credit unions on the partial exemptions available to them under the HMDA rules of the amended Dodd-Frank Act. Here are the details.
Read More »500 Days: A Housing Industry Snapshot
Which rules and regulations have impacted the housing industry since the Trump administration came to power in January 2017? Click through to learn the impact of this administration’s legislation and nominations on the industry.
Read More »Dodd-Frank Modification Bill to Benefit Small Lenders
The United States Senate today voted to advance S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, after several weeks of debate, amendments, and negotiation. On Wednesday afternoon, the ...
Read More »Senate Debates Dodd-Frank Modifications on Way to Full Vote
On Wednesday, the Senate entered its second day of debate over the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. The bill enacts modifications to the Dodd-Frank Wall ...
Read More »Dodd-Frank Modification Bill Heads for Full Senate
Republicans scored a major win with the tax reform bill last week, and now another major piece of legislation has been advanced to the full Senate for debate.
Read More »It’s Not Just the GOP Trying to Roll Back Dodd-Frank
Lawmakers’ efforts to chip away at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act have come almost exclusively from the Republican side of the aisle—until now.
Read More »SIFMA CEO Anticipates New Year in an Uncertain Industry
As the year draws to a close and many of us reflect on its events, make predictions, and set goals for the new year, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) is doing the same. In an interview included in SmartBrief's 2012 Best Of reports, SIFMA CEO Tim Ryan spoke of the regulatory progress and the lack thereof that has taken place in 2012 and his organization's concerns and expectations for the year ahead.
Read More »Two Years in Review for the CFPB and Dodd-Frank
Financial reform advocates have two birthdays to celebrate on Saturday. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the two-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, the sweeping financial reform law that spawned it. Their stories run parallel to each other ├â┬ó├óÔÇÜ┬¼├óÔé¼┼ô and rightly so. The consumer bureau squeaked past partisan gridlock this time last year, just one year after Democrats, then in the majority of both houses of Congress, cleared Dodd-Frank for the president├â┬ó├óÔÇÜ┬¼├óÔÇ×┬ós signature.
Read More »Dodd-Frank Comes Under Fire at Congressional Hearing
The Dodd-Frank Act fell under scrutiny at a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday, with lawmakers from the right charging that the reform law will impose arbitrary rules that limit consumer choice and prevent an economic recovery. Much of the light fell on interagency efforts to finalize the controversial Volcker Rule, a rulemaking requirement under Dodd-Frank that bans short-term proprietary trading by systemically important financial institutions like Chase. Witnesses included Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray.
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