Schumer Weighs In Against CapOne/Discover Deal
Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) made it clear that the Capital One/Discover merger faces an unusually high hurdle: strong opposition with the power to pack even more of a political punch than concerns voiced so far by progressive Democrats.
Treasury IMF Presses for Bank Insurance, Pension, Bond-Fund Rules Restricting Private-Credit Interconnection
The IMF continued its pressure on private credit, finding that the sector clocked in last year at $2.1 trillion with three quarters of this in the U.S. and soon to eclipse syndicated lending and high-yield bonds.
GOP Introduces CRA Resolutions Challenging Climate-Risk Rules
Splitting the issue among various GOP sponsors, GOP members have introduced Congressional Review Act resolutions to overturn climate-risk rules finalized by the OCC (H.J. Res 124 by Rep. Donalds [R-FL] et al.), the FRB (H.J. Res 125 by Rep. Fitzgerald [R-WI] et al.), and FDIC (H.J. Res 126 by Rep. Houchin [R-IN] et al.).
CFPB Criticizes Credit Report Inaccuracies for Victims of Human Trafficking, Identity Theft
A CFPB report criticized furnishers for providing false or fraudulent information to consumer reporting companies and accused consumer reporting agencies of failing to ensure the accuracy of credit reports related to victims of human trafficking and identity theft, finding significant non-compliance with its 2022 rule requiring reporting companies to block adverse information.
FRB-NY Finds that Brokers with BHCs are Better, But Are They?
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s blog today posted a brief about a May 2021 study concluding that broker-dealers affiliated with BHCs had better liquidity thanks to the parent company during the great financial crisis and thus took greater risk than like-kind, unaffiliated broker-dealers.