Treasury awkwardly courting financial reporters
November 5, 2009 Check out this post on the financial blog Naked Capitalism describing an off-the-record meeting the Treasury Department...

More on the Chase overdraft fee story
November 5, 2009 Matthew Miller, the man who lost more than $1,400 to Chase in a puzzling series of overdraft fees last month has written to...

Frank to Strengthen His Derivatives Bill
November 4, 2009 House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank wrote Tuesday to the heads of the two agencies that would probably be...

HuffPo item dissects JPM overdraft fees
November 4, 2009 Over at the Huffington Post today, reporter Arthur Delaney walked readers through the case of a former Washington Mutual...

Clarity Seen in New CRE Guidelines
November 4, 2009 Though fears linger that regulators are letting banks kick problems down the road, most observers say guidelines released last...

Treasury, federal bank regulators trip over each other in FBOP failure
November 2, 2009 Tucked into stories of Friday’s failure of the nine subsidiaries of FBOP is evidence of a clash of government agencies...

Nov 2-6: Systemically important markup
October 30, 2009 Most of the action this week will be in the House Financial Services Committee, where Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., will...

Washington People
October 30, 2009 The Daily Show's suggestion for venting consumer anger: the "Angry Mob Platinum Card"; Bair gives equal time to ABA...

The tide is turning in the Glass-Steagall debate
October 29, 2009 Six months ago, Glass-Steagall, the Depression-era law that dictated strict separation between commercial and investment...

The Daily Show takes on reg reform
October 29, 2009 They say true compromise is achieved when nobody’s happy. In the case of financial regulatory reform, that doesn’t...