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[@BrendanPedersen](/creator/twitter/BrendanPedersen)
"The retail lobby's Merchants Payments Coalition took a shot at the banks this afternoon after Wall Street reported huge profits in the third quarter. Always fun to see the politics of bank earnings take shape. And there's always a credit card angle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1980328514151936110) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-20T17:41Z 13.5K followers, 2328 engagements


"Former Lummis staffer bops over to the Bitcoin Policy Institute to lead strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1980356816035893563) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-20T19:33Z 13.5K followers, 8571 engagements


"News from me and @LauraEWeiss16: Staffing shakeup on the Senate Banking Committee Cat Fuchs staff director for Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is joining Senate Majority Leader Thune's office. She'll replace Chris Toppings who advised Thune on finserv tax trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1978560344059428885) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-15T20:35Z 13.5K followers, 10.8K engagements


"From the joint prudential statement rescinding these guidelines: The agencies do not believe principles for the management of climate-related financial risk are necessary and are concerned that such principles could distract from the management of other potential risks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1978901292710818102) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-16T19:10Z 13.5K followers, 2174 engagements


"Interesting remark from Treasury Sec. Bessent earlier this morning at the Fed: ". The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing and hopefully will soon mark up an expansion of FDIC insurance on non-interest bearing transaction accounts""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1976277235209478146) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-09T13:23Z 13.5K followers, 9793 engagements


"Sen. Lummis (R-Wyo) says she spoke with the White House today about a new nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC is on their list of front burner issues and I think they've got some good names Lummis said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1980392846076309557) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-20T21:57Z 13.5K followers, 1751 engagements


"Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) objects to the UC request from Warren who is the ranking member of the panel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1978201292699734083) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-14T20:48Z 13.5K followers, 27.1K engagements


"Treasury RIF news: Staff at the CDFI Fund were told this afternoon that *all* employees will be RIFed according to sources familiar. The CDFI Fund is a bipartisan darling for community development with supporters like Sens Crapo (R-Ida.) and Warner (D-Va.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1976753534763745409) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-10T20:55Z 13.5K followers, 275.3K engagements


"Heres whos invited to tomorrows crypto roundtable for Banking GOP per staff notice. *=TBD Coinbase Brian Armstrong Galaxy Natalia Berdibekov-Li Chainlink Labs* Solana Kristin Smith Uniswap* Kraken* Circle - Heath Tarbert Ripple Stu Alderoty a16z Miles Jennings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1980692687763259514) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-21T17:48Z 13.5K followers, 1464 engagements


"TODAY might be a good day to re-up a story I wrote in 2019 about whether any cloud computing services should be designated a source of systemic financial risk by regulators. Maybe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1980325503145009540) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-20T17:29Z 13.5K followers, 5733 engagements


"JPMorgan submitted its own comment letter on open banking today and this excerpt makes clear they still want to charge folks for accessing this data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1980736629083173157) [@BrendanPedersen](/creator/x/BrendanPedersen) 2025-10-21T20:43Z 13.5K followers, 4742 engagements