April 1, 2025 - The Conference of State Bank Supervisors sent a letter to House Financial Services Committee leadership that raised concerns about stablecoin legislation. April 1, 2025 - Chairman French Hill (AR-02) and...more
February 11, 2025- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.” The Committee heard testimony from the Honorable Jerome H....more
February 7, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the appointment of Rodney E. Hood as Acting Comptroller of the Currency, effective February 10, 2025. The Acting Comptroller also will be a director on the...more
December 4, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance.”...more
On November 20, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing titled “Oversight of Prudential Regulators” to question the directors and focus on the recent actions and future plans of the Fed, the FDIC, the NCUA, and...more
In this update, we focus on the potential changes in the executive branch and on the congressional committees that have jurisdiction over cryptocurrency. As the transition unfolds, much attention is on who will stay from the...more
On October 30, Republican congressmembers serving on the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services responded to a joint Request for Information (RFI) issued by the OCC, the Fed and the FDIC. The RFI solicited input on...more
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled “Regulatory Recipe for Economic Uncertainty: The Endless Basel Endgame and an Onslaught of...more
September 24, 2024- The House Financial Services Committee (FSC) held a hearing to conduct oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission with testimony from all five Commissioners. In preparation of such hearing the...more
July 23, 2024- The Bank Policy Institute, with the American Bankers Association (ABA), Consumer Bankers Association (CBA), and the National Bankers Association (NBA), submitted a joint statement for the record for the...more
January 18, 2024- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "National Security Challenges: Outpacing China in Emerging Technology."...more
January 17, 2024- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led a letter to the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of...more
This week, the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held oversight hearings with leaders of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), the National Credit...more
September 13, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Other Efforts to Strengthen National Security...more
February 24, 2023- The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), introduced the Data Privacy Act of 2023. February 24, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign...more
January 12, 2023- Subcommittees of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as their respective Chairs and jurisdiction for the 118th Congress, were announced. January 11, 2023- Republican Committee members...more
Hearing: Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission- September 15, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the U.S. Securities and...more
September 13, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "New Consumer Financial Products and the Impacts to Workers."...more
On November 29, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and committee member Bill Foster (D-IL) sent a letter to the leaders of multiple federal regulators, asking them to monitor technological...more
Earlier this month, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden recommending various actions that the Biden Administration should take in the financial services...more
On Wednesday, February 5, the House Financial Services Committee will hold the first part of a two-part hearing on “rent-a-bank” structures. The hearing is titled “Rent-A-Bank Schemes and New Debt Traps: Assessing Efforts to...more
The House Financial Services Committee has announced that it will hold the following hearings this month: On January 14, the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions will hold a hearing entitled, “The...more
Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting appeared before the House Financial Services Committee yesterday and before the Senate Banking Committee yesterday....more
All 34 Republican members of the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Tex. – R) and Vice Chairman Patrick McHenry (N.C. – R), in a letter dated March 10, 2017,...more
Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry, Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has introduced the “Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016,” which is intended to provide a streamlined regulatory process for...more