The Blue Wave Hits Financial Services
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Alex Johnson · NOV 11
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Welcome back to Fintech Takes. I’m your host, Alex Johnson, and I’ve flashed the regulatory bat signal to bring Rob Blackwell (Chief Content Officer & Head of External Affairs at IntraFi and host of the Banking With Interest podcast) back for an emergency edition of What the Hell Is Going On.Copy anchor linkCopied
The midterms delivered a blue wave Rob calls “generational.” But did Democrats win, or did Republicans lose?
And what does it mean for financial services?
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- How Fairshake spent $50 million against Sherrod Brown and lost (and what that means for crypto’s political leverage and the CLARITY Act), and why World Liberty Financial’s trust charter is headed for congressional scrutiny.
- Why Elizabeth Warren and Maxine Waters could soon wield committee gavels, and what comes next for the gutted CFPB, with newly empowered state Democrats eyeing bank fees in the meantime.
- Whether bipartisanship has a future. Trump says he’s open to deals, but Rob puts the odds at 3/10, citing a housing bill Trump nearly vetoed after coming to see a provision he’d requested as Warren’s.
Plus, a tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Rob’s case for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Big thanks to Increase for making the conversation possible.
