House Financial Services Committee To Hold Hearing on Terrorism Financing

House Financial Services CommitteeOn the face of it this hearing has little to do with the marketplace lending industry. The hearing is somewhat sensationally titled: “Trading with the Enemy: Trade-Based Money Laundering is the Growth Industry in Terror Finance”.

So the focus for this hearing will be trade finance. But given what happened with the recent attacks in San Bernardino and the subsequent request for information from this very committee it will not be a surprise if this industry enters into the conversation. Even if it doesn’t I have heard that this is the first of several hearings the committee will hold over the coming months and one of them will be focused on marketplace lending directly.

Now, this is an election year and like most things in Congress politics will come into play. And given that fighting terrorism is one of the few bipartisan issues it is quite possible that something will emerge out of this committee that will impact our industry.

We will be following developments here closely and will report back on any news.

 

  • Peter Renton

    Peter Renton is the chairman and co-founder of LendIt Fintech, the world’s first and largest digital media and events company focused on fintech. Peter has been writing about fintech since 2010 and he is the author and creator of the Fintech One-on-One Podcast, the first and longest-running fintech interview series. Peter has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, Fortune, NPR, Fox Business News, the Financial Times, and dozens of other publications.

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