Insights: Financials

Energy, Financials, Healthcare, Macro, Tech / Media / Telecom

Senate Republicans continue to deliberate over the major issues associated with a single, broad-based budget resolution that allows for large-scale tax cuts and spending reductions, as was passed by the House and endorsed by President Trump (versus the narrower Senate-passed version that just focuses on border and defense spending). House...

Financials, Mergers & Acquisitions

Capital One/Discover

Going into the end of last week, it appeared that the Capital One/Discover deal would be subject to the more permissive bank M&A regulatory framework that we expect the Trump administration to pursue in the coming years. In fact, the CFPB dropped its lawsuit against Capital One, which suggested the Trump administration was inclined to look at the...

Last week, the FDIC voted to overturn the bank merger guidelines issued last year under the Biden administration and to revert to the prior standards. Separately, Senate Republicans are reportedly planning to soon vote on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would terminate the OCC’s bank merger guidelines, which were also finalized...

Crypto (Stablecoins, Market structure)

In addition to the strong commitment President Trump has made to facilitating a supportive regulatory environment for crypto, Congressional Republicans have begun to move quickly on legislation in this area, and have set expectations that this is their top priority for financial services policy and that a bill will be enacted into law. They have...

Energy, Financials, Healthcare, Macro, Tech / Media / Telecom

Now that the House and Senate Republicans have each passed their own versions of a budget resolution, negotiations will commence in the coming days on adopting a joint resolution. This resolution establishes the allowable deficit parameters of subsequent “reconciliation” legislation that will make changes to taxes/spending. While Senate...

Energy, Financials, Healthcare, Macro, Tech / Media / Telecom

Reconciliation & Debt Limit

House and Senate Republicans are this week taking their initial steps towards enacting their reconciliation legislation, which enables them to enact changes on taxes, Medicaid, defense, and border security, among other issues on a partisan basis. The first step in this process is to pass a “budget resolution” that establishes the high-level...