The National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund remains healthy, and Congress should take no action to give the agency board new power to manage it or charge premiums, the two national credit union trade groups said Tuesday.
Financial services companies would continue to make loans—and make money on the deals—if Congress decides to place a 36% interest rate cap on short-term loans, Richard Williams, president/CEO of the Essential Credit Union told a Senate committee Wednesday.
Credit union and banking trade groups are asking Congress to ignore proposals to impose a 36% fee and interest cap on loans made by financial institutions.
“The proposed 36% fee and interest cap would make it more difficult for many consumers to obtain credit, thereby harming the very consumers the legislation seeks to protect. Congress should reject these legislative measures,” the groups, including the Credit Union National Association, the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions, the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America, wrote, in a letter to the Senate Banking Committee.
Credit union and banking political action committees have resumed making campaign contributions to House members who objected to the certification of some states’ Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.
If it’s summertime, it’s time for the annual brawl between credit unions and banks over free access to military bases.
Each year, the two sides renew their feud, with credit unions intent on defending their turf and banks arguing that Congress has given credit unions another unfair advantage.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency on Friday announced that on Aug. 1, it will eliminate a controversial 0.5% fee on refinancing of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgages, a fee that the Trump Administration had said was needed to help the Enterprises weather the coronavirus economic crisis.
Key Democratic senators vowed Wednesday to block marijuana banking legislation unless it is enacted as part of a comprehensive federal cannabis legalization measure.
The nation’s community bankers are calling on the Biden Administration to support legislation imposing a tax on credit union acquisitions of banks.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s so-called “rent-a-bank” rule that allowed banks and savings and loans to provide their charter to online lenders with annual interest rates exceeding 100% is dead.
President Biden officially killed the rule Wednesday by signing a resolution repealing it. The House approved that resolution last week; the Senate had passed it earlier.
Credit union trade groups are warning Congress that proposals to establish a public credit reporting agency within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would give the agency enormous new power that it should not have.