Basel III is not just about how much capital the banks have to hold, but what the lending environment looks like and what impact that has on businesses of all sizes and the ability of these institutions to serve them, which means it has an impact on employment and on the economy, Florida Bankers Association CEO and former CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger tells the Bloomberg Intelligence Votes and Verdicts podcast. BI analysts Elliott Stein and Nathan Dean hosted Kraninger to discuss the status of US financial regulation, including the Basel III Endgame and cryptocurrencies. Among other topics were CFPB independence, litigation challenging the agency’s funding structure and whether the SEC and CFTC should be merged.

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Can the FCC regulate broadband service? Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Schettenhelm joins colleague Jennifer Rie in this Votes and Verdicts brief to discuss the FCC’s latest advance of net-neutrality rules. They explore how the legal challenge to the agency’s rules is likely to play out.

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What’s the path and timeline for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to exit conservatorship? How should the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s independence be restored? Did the FHFA exceed its authority in implementing the Fannie-Freddie profit sweep? How should the Basel III Endgame proposal be improved? Do other regulators have problematic work environments like the FDIC? In this episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Elliott Stein and Ben Elliott host Mark Calabria, former director of the FHFA and chief economist to former Vice President Mike Pence, to examine these questions and more. They also discuss Calabria’s history of seeing Grateful Dead and Phish shows.

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