KBWR - Bank mergers to get more scrutiny under Biden's executive order

Drew Angerer/Getty Images News In President Biden's sweeping executive order that's designed to increase competition in the American economy, the president will order the Department of Justice and agencies responsible for banking to update guidelines on banking mergers "to provide more robust scrutiny of mergers," the White House said in a fact sheet. Those agencies include the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. It will also encourage the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to issue rules that will allow bank customers to withdraw their data to make it easier to switch banks. That may put a damper on mergers in the banking industry, which had picked up under the Trump administration. In 2019, SunTrust and BB&T merged to form Truist in a $28B deal. Earlier in the year, Fifth Third bought MB Financial. Last year, M&A among commercial, savings and investment

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Bank mergers to get more scrutiny under Biden's executive order