Chair Hensarling and the House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee on Thursday May 4, 2017 completed mark-up of the Financial CHOICE Act (“FCA”) and reported out the bill to the House along party lines by a 34-26 vote. If enacted, the FCA would significantly amend the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“DFA”) and other banking and securities laws. Among many other changes, the FCA would eliminate the systemic risk regulation program for non-banks under Titles I, II and VIII of the DFA and provide relief from DFA-imposed requirements for qualifying strongly-capitalized banks, as well as low risk and community banks. The FCA would also curtail the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), repeal the Durbin Amendment cap on debit card fees charged to merchants, roll back mortgage regulation, limit the credit risk retention rule to securitizations of home mortgages, and repeal the statutory authority for the SEC to impose restrictions on conflicts of interest in securitizations.
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