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Crypto Coalition Sends Letter to Senate Urging That the Clarity Act Be Scheduled for Senate Vote - On June 7, a coalition of crypto firms and industry groups sent a letter addressed to the Senate Majority Leader John...more
Former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy and political debates in Congress. In this episode of “The Cloakroom with...more
The Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC jointly reissued interagency guidance documents to further remove references to reputation risk, part of a broader supervisory effort to address debanking that has featured prominently in the...more
In a markup on May 14, 2026, the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (“CLARITY Act”) by a vote of 15-9 with two Democrats in support. Senators Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Angela Alsobrooks...more
This week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, sent a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) challenging the agency’s granting of...more
On May 14, 2026, the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. This bill is styled as substitute text and sets forth a broad market structure framework addressing illicit finance, DeFi,...more
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee by a bipartisan vote of 15-9. The legislation will need to be combined and reconciled with the Senate Agriculture Committee’s portion...more
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing and voted 15–9 to advance H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (the CLARITY Act), sending the first comprehensive Senate crypto market...more
On May 13, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to a four-year term as Fed chair by a vote of 54-45. As previously covered by InfoBytes, Warsh was nominated to the role by President Trump in January and is set to assume the...more
On May 1, Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Thom Tillis finalized compromise language addressing Stablecoin yield and rewards in the Senate’s ongoing CLARITY Act negotiations. The compromise is intended to resolve one of the key...more
FRB Governor Lisa Cook Talks Tokenization Benefits and Concerns - At a digital assets conference in Senegal in West Africa, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook spoke about the effects of tokenization and financial...more
Senate Banking Committee Approves CLARITY Act in Bipartisan 15–9 Vote; Debate Continues Over Illicit Finance and Ethics Provisions - On May 14, the Senate Banking Committee voted 15–9 to advance H.R. 3633, the Digital...more
Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) reportedly reached a compromise aimed at resolving a standoff between the crypto industry and banking groups over whether digital asset exchanges should be permitted to...more
Officials convened at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas last week to outline the current administration’s approach to digital asset policy. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig delivered...more
The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets issued a staff statement articulating the conditions under which providers of certain crypto asset securities user interfaces may operate without registering as broker-dealers under...more
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs ranking Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, has introduced legislation that would require the FDIC to claw back compensation from...more
On February 26, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman, FDIC Chair Travis Hill, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould, and NCUA Chair Kyle Hauptman testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and...more
On February 18, two groups of senators, both led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), issued letters to the Fed’s vice chair for supervision requesting information on recent reported actions that the senators contend may weaken...more
Last year, the Senate Banking Committee passed the Road to Housing Act 24-0 and tried to attach it to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act. The ROAD amendment did not survive the House–Senate NDAA negotiations,...more
In this episode of Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast, hosts Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso unpack Senator Elizabeth Warren's February 5 data request to major auto finance companies, buy-here-pay-here dealers, and...more
Entering the new year, digital assets legislation remains one of the few policy areas with robust bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill. All eyes remain on the two Senate committees of jurisdiction the Senate Banking Committee...more
On January 23, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the ranking Democratic member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, delivered a letter to the acting director of the CFPB, Russell Vought, criticizing...more
Recent congressional debate over the proposed CLARITY Act has highlighted a pivotal issue in stablecoin regulation: whether stablecoin issuers, or the exchanges and other third parties that distribute their tokens, should be...more
Senate Agriculture Committee Republicans released updated digital asset market structure legislation clarifying the CFTC’s regulatory authority, while signaling that a bipartisan agreement has not been reached. A list of...more
The Senate Banking Committee delayed its scheduled markup of the digital asset market structure legislation as bipartisan negotiations continue. A key point of contention is a provision prohibiting digital asset service...more