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America’s community banks are disappearing and forming more infrequently. These local lenders once dotted every city and small town, offering small business loans, farm credit, and personal banking ...

In the five years since President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, officially making it a federal law, regulators have not yet fully implemented the ...

Representative French Hill, a Republican from Arkansas and vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON — House Republicans began their ...

With passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010, President Barack Obama went a long way toward fulfilling his pledge to regulate oil trading and "increase ...

While the new House Republican majority focuses on a vote next week to repeal the health care reform law, one of its members who is closely tied to the Tea Party movement has introduced a bill to kill ...

I read with interest Rep. Scott Tipton’s guest column in the Post Independent on the ill effects and unintended consequences on community banks of the Dodd-Frank Act (or as some of my attorney friends ...

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The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in 2010 to promote economic stability and protect consumers in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, is showing mixed results, according to a new study by Case ...