Things To Come
Last week, banking-agency supervisory heads found themselves before Congressional Committees that – at least in the House – will look very different in the next Congress. As Karen Petrou’s remarks last week made clear, only some legislation will be enacted into law, but many inquiries and investigations will put the Fed, OCC, and FDIC on very hot seats. The heat will be hottest on the right when it comes to HFSC and around the circumference of the seat in the Senate, where only the little bit that’s left of the middle is likely to view many banking-agency actions with the deference that was once the norm for all but the highest-profile or most-disastrous calls.