Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Trump's New Bank Regulator: Lawyer Who Helped Banks Charge More Fees

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/15/trumps-new-bank-regulator-lawyer-who-helped-banks-charge-more-fees
"In the early 2000s, banks successfully sued to stop Iowa from limiting their ability to charge ATM fees to non-customers. They also fought off states’ attempts to stop them from charging non-customers to cash checks drawn on the banks’ accounts. In another case, they stopped California from forcing two banks to conduct audits of their own residential mortgages. What do all these cases have in common? The winning argument in each was that states had no right to impose their laws on federally regulated national banks. And the man who helped make that powerful argument was Keith Noreika — President Trump’s pick to head the federal agency that oversees national banks."