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After the Democratic Party wins the midterm elections, Warren will take charge of the Senate Banking Committee. She is expected to use stronger supervision and subpoena powers to launch tougher investigations into banks, private equity, encryption and prediction markets.
The US stock market fell to 5th place, with artificial intelligence (AI) concept stocks falling the most. Big bank stocks also declined. JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs both fell more than 4% that day, highlighting unease about a coming “blue tsunami”. most give upwall Street The person who is afraid is the Democratic Congresswoman:rabbitry (Elizabeth Warren).
From the financial industry’s perspective, Warren has been giving them trouble for the last 20 years. He criticized the private equity industry as legal “looting” and drafted a bill to make it easier for authorities to jail private equity executives; He demanded a criminal investigation of bank officials whose poor risk controls led to the crisis; He sought to delay the largest IPO in history (SpaceX) and questioned the existential risks posed to humanity by Anthropic; He also promised to investigate bank executives’ ties to Epstein and their dealings with the Trump administration.
The Massachusetts senator will take charge of the powerful Senate Banking Committee in January next year after the Democratic Party’s landslide victory in the midterm elections. Building on the courage she has shown over the years and her new subpoena power, Warren is expected to begin a new chapter of tougher oversight and investigation of big banks. From JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America (BofA), Wall Street financiers to the new generation of trading technology players like cryptocurrencies and prediction markets, everyone is uneasy.
Republican former senator who wasmanagement committee Toomey, who sits on the Banking Committee, said, “It’s hard to imagine that (Warren taking over the Banking Committee) is good news for these reasons.” “She’s been bashing banks for years.”
By becoming chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Warren has a better chance of achieving her goal of protecting consumer rights.
The Wall Street Journal speculates that Warren’s priorities in the early days of taking office may be to use the “Stop Wall Street Looting Act” to deal with private equity players, investigating whether prediction market players are involved in insider trading, and investigating whether cryptocurrency companies are meeting their responsibilities to protect consumers.
Warren, 77, has built his career on reforming Wall Street. She is a former professor at Harvard University and an expert in bankruptcy law. After the global financial tsunami in 2008, then US President Obama wanted to recruit him to help establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). But at the time, the banking industry believed Warren’s style was too radical and used strong lobbying power to prevent her from taking charge of the new agency. The lobbyists who first opposed him may now be regretting it.
Since Warren was later elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, she has held frequent hearings and strongly rebuked banking industry executives. Over the past two years, Warren, the top Democratic member of the Banking Commission, and her staff have sent hundreds of letters demanding answers to thousands of questions from the companies.
Observers say the legislation, which Warren is enthusiastically promoting, if it succeeds, would reduce revenues for Wall Street firms, especially private equity firms. Observers expect Warren to also vigorously rebuild the federal agencies dismantled by the Trump 2.0 administration over the past two years, including the CFPB, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
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Because he has criticized the financial industry for many years, he has criticized private equity, called for an investigation of bank executives, and advocated stricter consumer protection and market supervision, which has caused Wall Street to worry that he will face more investigations and sanctions in the future.
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Reports indicate that his initial priorities may be to promote a bill to tackle private equity, investigate whether there is insider trading in the prediction markets, and review whether cryptocurrency companies enforce consumer protection responsibilities.
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Warren is expected to rebuild institutions like the CFPB, SEC and OCC that were weakened by the Trump administration in the past, strengthen oversight of big banks and new financial players, and further reduce the revenue space of Wall Street-related companies.
