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99 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Congress Repeals CFPB’s Overdraft Rule
2025-09-10 · Posts · IN12513 · HTML available · PDF available
Proxy Advisor Regulation: Recent Litigation, State Law Developments, and Federal Legislation
2025-09-04 · Reports · R48691 · HTML available · PDF available
An Overview of Medical Debt: Collection, Credit Reporting, and Related Policy Issues
2025-08-29 · Resources · IF12169 · HTML available · PDF available
Private Sector: Accounting and Auditing Regulatory Structure
2025-08-26 · Reports · R48647 · HTML available · PDF available
Financial Data Transparency Act: Implementation Status of Data Standards and Related Data Collection Issues
2025-08-25 · Resources · IF13093 · HTML available · PDF available
Artificial Intelligence and Derivatives Markets: Policy Issues
2025-07-25 · Resources · IF13072 · HTML available · PDF available
Stablecoin Legislation: An Overview of S. 1582, GENIUS Act of 2025
2025-07-18 · Posts · IN12553 · HTML available · PDF available
Crypto Legislation: CLARITY Act’s (H.R. 3633) Potential Effects on SEC Jurisdiction
2025-07-10 · Posts · IN12584 · HTML available · PDF available
Nonbank Financial Intermediation (NBFI or “Shadow Banking”) and Capital Markets Policy
2025-06-25 · Reports · R48512 · HTML available · PDF available
Legislative Proposals Affecting Capital Markets Funding
2025-06-25 · Resources · IF12999 · HTML available · PDF available
Interest Rate Caps on Credit Cards
2025-05-22 · Resources · IF12861 · HTML available · PDF available
One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Title V, House Committee on Financial Services
2025-05-22 · Posts · IN12552 · HTML available · PDF available
Stablecoin Legislation: An Overview of S. 919, GENIUS Act of 2025
2025-05-19 · Posts · IN12522 · HTML available · PDF available
Capital Markets and Securities Regulation: Overview and Policy Issues
2025-05-02 · Reports · R48521 · HTML available · PDF available
The Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy (STABLE) Act of 2025: An Overview
2025-04-16 · Posts · IN12525 · HTML available · PDF available
Central Bank Digital Currencies
2025-04-10 · Resources · IF11471 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Financial Services: Consumer Finance
2025-04-01 · Resources · IF11682 · HTML available · PDF available
Tokenized Assets
2025-04-01 · Resources · IF12670 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Financial Services: Capital Markets
2025-04-01 · Resources · IF11062 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Financial Services: The Regulatory Framework
2025-04-01 · Resources · IF11065 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Financial Services: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Issues
2025-04-01 · Resources · IF11716 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Derivatives and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
2025-03-13 · Reports · R48451 · HTML available · PDF available
Elder Financial Exploitation
2025-02-12 · Posts · IN12462 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. Efforts to Combat Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Other Illicit Financial Threats
2025-02-04 · Resources · IF11064 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Financial Services: The Federal Reserve
2025-01-06 · Resources · IF10054 · HTML available · PDF available
Resources for Financial Market Data
2024-12-30 · Reports · R47379 · HTML available · PDF available
Consumer-Style Protections for Small Businesses: Issues and Options for Congress
2024-11-25 · Reports · R48281 · HTML available · PDF available
Alternative Data in Financial Services
2024-11-07 · Resources · IF11630 · HTML available · PDF available
Derivatives Trading in U.S. Banking
2024-10-17 · Resources · IF12786 · HTML available · PDF available
Capital Markets: Public and Private Securities Offerings
2024-10-02 · Reports · R45221 · HTML available
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Finalizes Rule for a Registry of Nonbank Covered Orders
2024-08-29 · Resources · IF12751 · HTML available · PDF available
Financial Services and General Government FY2025 Appropriations: CFPB’s Funding and Structure Provisions
2024-08-21 · Posts · IN12409 · HTML available · PDF available
SEC Securities Disclosure: Background and Policy Issues
2024-08-20 · Resources · IF11256 · HTML available · PDF available
Rapidly Growing “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) Financing: Market Developments and Policy Issues
2024-08-08 · Resources · IF12734 · HTML available · PDF available
Financial Inclusion: Access to Bank Accounts
2024-08-02 · Resources · IF11631 · HTML available · PDF available
Earned Wage Access Products
2024-07-31 · Resources · IF12727 · HTML available · PDF available
Voluntary Carbon Credit Markets and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
2024-06-13 · Reports · R48095 · HTML available · PDF available
Americans’ Investment Options in Capital Markets for Retirement
2024-05-24 · Resources · IF12674 · HTML available · PDF available
An Overview of H.R. 4763, Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act
2024-05-17 · Posts · IN12223 · HTML available · PDF available
Potential Disapproval of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 Under the Congressional Review Act
2024-05-15 · Posts · IN12358 · HTML available · PDF available
Technology Service Providers and Credit Unions
2024-05-10 · Resources · IF12665 · HTML available · PDF available
Private Credit: Trends and Policy Issues
2024-04-23 · Resources · IF12642 · HTML available · PDF available
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services
2024-04-03 · Reports · R47997 · HTML available · PDF available
Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) and Broker-Dealer Regulation
2024-02-20 · Resources · IF12594 · HTML available · PDF available
SEC Approves Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs)
2024-01-19 · Resources · IF12573 · HTML available · PDF available
Hedge Funds: Background and Policy Issues
2023-10-17 · Resources · IF12511 · HTML available · PDF available
Who Regulates Whom? An Overview of the U.S. Financial Regulatory Framework
2023-10-13 · Reports · R44918 · HTML available · PDF available
Family Office Regulation in Light of the Archegos Fallout
2023-08-08 · Resources · IF11825 · HTML available · PDF available
Short Selling: Background and Policy Issues
2023-08-08 · Resources · IF12400 · HTML available · PDF available
Belts and Suspenders: Analysis of Large Bank Capital Standards
2023-07-26 · Reports · R47634 · HTML available · PDF available