MarketWatch: It’s been illegal to make women have a man co-sign their loans since the ’70s. Now the Trump administration could change that.
Appearing in MarketWatch on December 17, 2025, Aarthi Swaminathan interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Jeremiah Battle, Jr. for coverage of proposed changes to a rule barring banks from discriminating against certain borrowers that advocates say are ‘alarming,’ and a ‘step backwards.’ “This rule would invite discrimination to persist in the credit market and create barriers to…