New usage fees from ICE may stop banks from pricing business loans off the London Interbank Offered Rate.
The Federal Reserve contemplates a sliding scale of bureaucracy for banks.
Over the last 30 years, the number of U.S. banks has been cut in half. Regulators don't seem interested in preventing further contraction.
CoBank, a government-sponsored enterprise designed to provide credit to farmers and ranchers, has no place in the $12 billion deal, a bank group says.
