The FTC and CFPB released agency-specific action statements on increasing tech capacity, including actively hiring technologists, to "help enforce the laws on the book and design remedies that work for consumers, workers, small businesses, and others in the digital era."
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CFPB Director Rohit Chopra decried the trend toward bank consolidation and proposed reforms to bank merger policy.
The FDIC proposed amendments to its Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions relevant to all insured depository institutions.
In an address before the Council of Institutional Investors, SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda underscored the importance of adhering to statutory limits in the exercise of administrative power and enforcement, and called for a regulatory framework that provides clear, predictable guidelines for market participants.
Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee urged banking regulators to withdraw their Basel III Endgame proposal. The legislators argued that, as issued, the proposal "lacks justification, lacks rigorous quantitative analysis, and is procedurally flawed."