Banks Get a Boost From Housing, Civil Rights Groups in Basel Fight

Also, bank regulators prepare to trek to Capitol Hill; FDIC launches investigation into claims of agency sexual harassment and discrimination

Republicans are set to give the banking regulators an earful about their capital plan in congressional hearings this week. But a growing outcry emerging from civil rights organizations and affordable housing advocates may be much more consequential.

Those groups, which have close ties to leading Democratic lawmakers and top Biden administration officials…