House Republican leaders are considering a short-term extension of the 80-year-old U.S. Export-Import Bank that is set to expire this month, a party aide said. An extension of several months is being discussed, said the Republican aide, who asked not …
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are cooperating on legislation that would lift some of the secrecy around the U.S. council that decides which companies pose the biggest risks to the financial system. The proposed legislation, drafted with help from the main …
A day before U.S. House Republicans were to vote on a new majority leader, lawmakers aligned with the limited-government Tea Party movement delivered a message to the leading candidate, Kevin McCarthy of California. They made clear to McCarthy at a …
Wall Street could count on Eric Cantor to take its side in the U.S. Congress. It won’t have the same luck with a top lawmaker in line to replace him. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, who twice voted …
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved a legislation that would extend for seven years the government’s financial backstop of terrorism insurance. The panel approved by a 22-0 vote a bipartisan bill that would raise commercial insurers’ co-payment to 20 percent …
U.S. regulators would gain flexibility in how they apply capital standards to insurance companies under a bill approved today by the Senate. The bill, approved by a voice vote, would ease a Dodd-Frank Act provision that imposes bank-like capital standards …
When Jeb Hensarling took over the congressional panel that spawned the Dodd-Frank Act, he vowed to roll back the landmark Wall Street law and eliminate government programs that backstop private markets. More than a year later, the Texas Republican is …
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has agreed on legislation to extend the government’s financial backstop of terrorism insurance for seven years. The legislation would raise private insurers’ co-payments to 20 percent from 15 percent. “In the long shadow of …
Insurance companies will urge U.S. lawmakers today to stop the Federal Reserve from imposing bank- like capital standards on their industry. A provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that overhauled U.S. financial regulation requires the Fed to set minimum capital …
Five U.S. agencies will finish the Volcker rule tomorrow after more than three years of Wall Street resistance to its limits on trading and investing. Lawmakers and their allies who want to rein in big banks are ready to pounce …
