President Obama’s senior aides recommended he veto a House Financial Services appropriations bill that contains myriad of legislative riders – including restrictions on the CFPB. Those provisions, which include subjecting the agency to the annual [...]
Congress has passed legislation that retroactively extends qualified charitable distributions (QCDs) from Traditional and Roth IRAs to January 1, 2015, and makes the provision permanent going forward. The provision—which allows IRA owners and beneficiaries [...]
Sometimes our Federal government moves as fast as a napping snail on certain items. Other times it happens to run at a proper pace. In the instance of consumer data security, it should be running [...]
The Homebuyers Assistance Act, a bill that would provide a safe harbor from both agency enforcement and private lawsuits for lenders acting in good faith to comply with new TILA-RESPA disclosure requirements, passed the House [...]
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) introduced legislation Thursday that would raise the member business lending cap. The bill, which is similar to legislation introduced by former Sen. [...]
A bill introduced last week by House Financial Services Committee members Scott Tipton, R-Colo., and Andy Barr, R-Ky., would provide regulatory relief to smaller community banks and credit unions by requiring federal regulators to tailor [...]
A housing and transportation appropriations bill with a CUNA-backed amendment that would prohibit the use of funds to enforce the “disparate impact” concept in providing housing services was adopted late Tuesday night by the U.[...]
by: Alana Coticchia I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Hyland, creator of OnBase, President and CEO, Bill Priemer for an hour-long social media chat hosted on our Facebook page. We gave our [...]
