Banking – Week of April 27 in Review

Through the middle of the week, the most noteworthy developments involved the Fed: the April meeting of the FOMC and the Senate Banking Committee’s approval of the nomination of Kevin Warsh as Chairman.  On Friday, two other notable events occurred.  A compromise appears to have been reached on the yield language in the Clarity Act.  The CFPB also released its final rule on the collection of small business loan data.  The full set of developments are below; Appendices I and II review the status of pending regulations and applications of note, respectively.