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My understanding was it was the credit unions and local banks more than the large major ones. There was a fear that community banks in rural areas would face capital flight and that, in turn, would affect farmers and the agriculture industry in general. From what I read about small community banks, there could, in theory, be an issue with this facing them, but it is highly likely to be a nothingburger in reality. It was something that Congress, as part of due diligence, should have looked at and they did.
The other big one was the ethics provisions. NGL what the Dems wanted was wild in that they wanted the ethics provisions to be retroactive and force Trump to sell whatever his crypto company is called. There was also stuff about his family being forced to sell out to...
What I found so wild about it was it wasn't like moving forward you can't do x,y,and z. There is also the whole thing of the way the Dems had it written; it was clearly targeting a single person, meanwhile Congress still trades individual stocks, sooooo it realistically wasn't going to happen.
Bessent has been pro community bank and sounds like he's satisfied with protecting them
https://m.stacker.news/156712
Dem's function on the opposite of ethics, they'll vote for it if crypto companies can out-bribe the legacy banks... which remains to be seen. Any concessions pointing to Trump's activities are just narrative cover... I think that's what Lummis was getting at with the 115 or so changes, they have their narrative cover
Big banks still have a lot to lose if they aren't the ones exporting dollars abroad, but in theory, they should be able to use stables to equal effect. It's more competition for them but also an efficiency improvement and grows the pie.
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https://m.stacker.news/156637
It's huge for stables, what did you reckon the fuss was all about? Trad banks fighting it.
It lets brokers in, cftc over sec, and a loophole for yield for money-market type uses.