Executive Orders news and trends

Trump Goes 6 for 8 on Crypto Promises During First Week
Cryptocurrency // January 27, 2025

The crypto industry wanted Donald Trump to become America’s 47th president, and they spent big to make it happen. Around 48% of all corporate money contributed to the 2024 election cycle came from crypto firms, and the 2024 elections saw 250 “pro crypto” members of...

Trade, the Economy and Regulatory Pauses Marked Week’s Blizzard of Executive Orders
Politics // January 26, 2025

The first week of Trump 2.0 started off with a bang — certainly as measured by the blizzard of executive actions that were signed by the new president. There were some orders directed at financial services and the economy at large — and insofar as...

AI Regulations: Trump Repeals Biden’s Order, French Minister Critiques EU AI Act
artificial intelligence // January 22, 2025

As expected, President Donald Trump repealed his predecessor Joe Biden’s 2023 artificial intelligence (AI) regulations on his first day in office. The former executive order would have required the federal government to vet the advanced AI models of major developers such as OpenAI, Google, Amazon...

Banking and BNPL Shifts in Limbo as Trump’s Executive Order Pauses Pending Regulations 
Politics // January 21, 2025

Amid the blizzard of executive orders that marked the first day of the Trump administration, there was widespread speculation that the new president would take some significant steps to drastically reshape agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Deposit Insurance...

Interviews & Exclusives
Government Exit Packages and Defunding May Mute Financial Regulators

January 31, 2025
The shakeup on Capitol Hill — still ongoing, as the Trump administration settles in for its second round, as the new Congress has been seated — will extend to financial regulations. These disruptions will likely touch the very structure of those agencies — the FDIC and the CFPB chief among them. The recent news regarding […]

Quick Reads
Biden Orders Federal Government to Improve Nation’s Cybersecurity

January 16, 2025
President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday (Jan. 16) requiring the federal government to improve the nation’s cybersecurity. One of the steps outlined in the executive order includes accelerating the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) that can improve cybersecurity. “Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform cyber defense by rapidly identifying new […]

Executive Order Looks To Overhaul Visa Programs

February 02, 2017
Via a new executive order, the Trump administration is calling on the government to re-examine wide-ranging visa programs to ensure they prioritize and protect jobs and wages of U.S. workers, reported...