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The body of law and supervisory practice governing how banks are chartered, examined and required to control risk.
OCC review of the nine largest national banks found policies that cut off some customers on subjective grounds instead of financial risk. The regulator announced no penalties and said only that it may consider policy changes, mezha.net reported from Reuters.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren leads a bipartisan bill to make the Fed and SEC investigate "Epstein connected" firms and executives, with fines or bans for wrongdoers. Barclays has already offered her a vetting defence over ex-CEO Jes Staley. She said it was not sufficient.
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OCC found debanking-linked policies at all nine of its largest national banks between 2020 and September 2025. No fines came with the report, but the CFPB announced its own investigation and the OCC is weighing further changes for the largest banks.
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Comptroller Jonathan Gould presented the OCC's debanking report in Lexington beside Senate candidate Andy Barr, weeks before election day. Gould suggested rules may follow. No penalty has been reported.
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Treasury fined Bank of America $1.2 billion over anti-money laundering and sanctions failures, the third-largest penalty in its history. The bank says it has invested billions in compliance. The case tests how far spending alone protects a large bank.
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Lead Bank has drafted a four-party waterfall that assigns liability for AI agent errors, American Banker reported. Bain projects US agentic spending of up to $500 billion a year by 2030, and the rules for who pays are still being written.
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House Democrats led by Maxine Waters asked the FDIC and OCC for at least 120 days to review a 400-plus-page Community Reinvestment Act rewrite. For banks, how long the rule lasts matters more, since the OCC's last solo rewrite was rescinded by the next administration.
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A tokenized deposit is legally the same deposit in a different wrapper, so what the six banks are buying is round-the-clock movement and programmable instructions. Five of them also own US banks with about $805 billion in assets.
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Governor Michael Barr thinks last week's increase probably will not get inflation back to 2%. The committee's own projections leave floating-rate borrowers budgeting for either one more quarter point or two before December.
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Credit unions held $187.1 billion of commercial loans secured by real estate at June 30, up 36% in two years. Citadel marketed positions in its record $50 million Philadelphia office loan to other financial institutions.
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A proposal from four federal agencies would size vendor oversight to the harm a relationship could do, while a separate statement from three of them says a few large core providers leave community banks little negotiating power.
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Cook rates 21 Republican-held House seats as toss-ups against five Democratic ones. In the Senate, Democrats need four net gains out of six toss-ups. Only that chamber decides whether financial regulators get confirmed.
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The Patriot Act duties banks actually staff, customer identification and suspicious activity reporting, are intact, and the one filing permanently eliminated carries no published cost. A bank has nothing in the record to book as a saving.
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