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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said total outstanding credit card debt eclipsed $1 trillion last year for the first time since the CFPB began collecting this data.

There is nothing about the crypto-asset securities markets that suggests investors and issuers are less deserving of the protections of U.S. securities laws, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said.

Federal regulators issued an interagency final rule to reform Community Reinvestment Act regulations.

The federal banking regulators published interagency principles for climate-related financial risk management for financial institutions with $100 billion or more in total consolidated assets.

The Federal Reserve Board is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. (Eastern time) today on proposed revisions to the agency’s debit interchange fee cap.

ICBA in the coming days will launch a survey on the value of community banks, small-business lending, and the regulatory environment.

A new ICBA blog post discusses the pursuit of policy initiatives around digital assets by prudential regulators, the White House, and the Treasury Department.

Federal agencies today are set to act on Community Reinvestment Act reform and climate risk.

ICBA launched a new risk management subgroup on its ICBA Community online platform.

ICBA and other groups urged the Federal Reserve Board to reject merchant requests for further changes to Regulation II governing debit card interchange fees during this week’s board meeting.

Federal agencies this week are set to act on Community Reinvestment Act reform and climate risk.

Federal regulators extended the comment deadline on their proposal to implement stricter regulatory capital standards on banks over $100 billion in assets while the Federal Reserve collects additional data on the impact of the proposal.