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When life feels scattered, return to the order Jesus gave: Seek God first. (Matthew 6:33) And watch the rest find its place. What’s one way you can seek Him today? 🙏 #Matthew633 #SeekFirst #GodFirst #KingdomMindset #Faith #Jesus #DailyFaith #TrustGod #Encouragement #Prayer

Credit Isn’t Tight. It’s Selective. Loan applications haven’t crashed — approval rates have. Banks aren’t pulling back on credit. They’re just pulling back on you. If your customer data doesn’t check out in 5 seconds, you’re not worth the risk.

Banks lost your trust. Local Banks earned it. In 2025, people aren’t just banking closer to home—they’re banking smarter. •Real relationships •Real approvals •Real service Welcome to the Trust Shift. #BankBetter #CommunityPower #2025Banking

BREAKING: Community Banks Are Booming in 2025 While big banks are tightening credit, local banks and credit unions are quietly powering America’s economy. Lending to small businesses is up 23%, mortgage approvals are moving faster, and customer trust is at an all-time high.

U.S. banks processed over $3 trillion in digital payments in Q1 2025. Faster rails. Cleaner data. Smarter fraud detection. The fintech-banking merge isn’t coming — it’s here. #FintechNews #BankingWins

The 10 top payments fintech funding rounds in the first quarter earned $845 million in funding, in total. Read more about which payments fintechs raised the most money in the first three months of the year. bit.ly/3GIjpn8 #fintech

Bankers in 2008: Bailouts. Bankers in 2025: AI, layoffs, and 100-hour workweeks. History doesn’t repeat — but it sure knows how to rhyme. #WallStreet #FinTech

@sama Seems like a step back.

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NEW: @RepFrenchHill, @RepAnnWagner, @RepAndyBarr, @SenatorTimScott, and @SenatorHagerty sent a letter to @USTreasury @SecScottBessent and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett voicing their concerns regarding the EU's CSDDD. READ:

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee, led by Chairman French Hill, held a hearing to address challenges posed by China across various policy areas, including its dominance as an official creditor and influence in international financial institutions.

Elliott Management has acquired a 5% stake in BP, becoming its third-largest shareholder. The activist investor is pushing for significant divestments in BP’s green energy businesses. Challenges BP’s current direction and is expected to be a focal at BP’s markets day on Feb 26

Amazon accused of €1.2B VAT evasion in Italy. EU regulators are watching—will this set a precedent for global tech crackdowns?

Staff Layoffs Halted: Following mass layoffs, a federal judge has temporarily blocked further terminations at the CFPB. This decision aims to preserve the agency’s functionality and protect sensitive data amidst ongoing legal challenges.

@RogueCfpb The CFPB has become an unaccountable regulatory burden, driving up compliance costs and limiting credit access. Cutting it would restore financial freedom and prevent bureaucratic overreach.

I’m starting to get the idea that Trump may not actually know what the CFPB is. Well other than that Elizabeth Warren had something to do with it. Which may be enough. These comments are so vague he could have been talking about anything. Actually kind of funny.

The next financial crisis won’t come from Wall Street—it’ll come from the collapse of fintech lenders who built empires on cheap money.

@mikulaja Additionally, the CFPB’s official account on X (formerly Twitter) has been deleted, further indicating a significant reduction in the agency’s public communications.

CFPB homepage returning a 404 not found error as of 9am ET; other pages on the site seem to be unaffected (for now…?)

@lhfang Absence of regulation could lead to a fragmented landscape, with varying state laws attempting to fill the void, potentially resulting in inconsistent protections and increased complexity for consumers. Dismantling the CFPB may empower unregulated entities.

Closing CFPB means rapidly accelerating the shift to app-based financial platforms with zero consumer protections — no FDIC insurance, no promises your money won’t be used to speculate on crypto like SBF, etc. Horrible idea that only empowers predators from the tech industry.

@RogueCfpb CFPB’s regulatory authority has been described as overreaching, stifling innovation and imposing compliance costs on financial institutions. Stakeholders believe that the CFPB’s operational costs, passed on to consumers with higher fees or reduced access to financial products.

If Vought wants my opinion, gutting the CFPB would be the dumbest possible approach to financial regulation he could take. Even if you don’t care about consumers, it would uniformly be worse for the industries the CFPB regulates. In the absence of the CFPB, the states will fill in that regulation with a patchwork of rules that will considerably harder and more expensive to comply with, than unified federal requirements. If I’m being cynical, the smarter play, by far, is use the CFPB to narrowly tailor its role, clearly define “abusive” and preempt as much state law and state enforcement as possible. The CFPB isn’t just a powerful tool for consumers, but for the industries it regulates too. At some point in the not too distant future, I expect the industry groups themselves will recognize this and push back a little on any plans to gut the CFPB. It’s simply not worth the political capital to gut a consumer protection agency when it can be repurposed to also provide rational protection to the industries and foster real competition.

@RARohde The lack of transparency and concrete information makes it challenging to assess the validity of these allegations. It’s crucial to approach such claims critically and demand evidence before accepting them as fact.

If Trump and Musk are really finding billions of dollars in fraud, then why not prosecute the offenders and recover misappropriated funds? They won't, of course, because most of the "fraud" isn't actually fraud. It is just spending on things Trump and friends don't like.