Victoria Finkle | May 15
Attorney General Eric Holder tried on Wednesday to walk back earlier comments that some financial institutions are "too big to jail" during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Victoria Finkle | May 15
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Wednesday that the chamber will hold a vote to confirm Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sometime next week.
Orson Aguilar and Sasha Werblin | May 15
The banking industry must create sustainable mortgage products that will work for responsible families of modest means. We also need a proactive homeownership policy from the federal government.
Harry Terris | May 15
Margin compression once again overpowered loan growth in the first quarter, sapping banks’ traditional source of revenue.
William M. Isaac | May 15
The heart of the issue is not who holds what titles, but whether a company’s governance processes are functioning as they should.
Clifford Rossi | May 15
A modified version of Ed DeMarco’s securities-based model for housing finance reform could promote an active market for risk-sharing arrangements and further reduce systemic risk by distributing credit risk broadly.
Robert Barba | May 14
State regulators seized a third bank unit of Capitol Bancorp., $31.6 million-asset Central Arizona Bank in Scottsdale, Ariz, in a rare Tuesday failure.
Donna Borak | May 14
Top Federal Reserve Board officials appear to have reached a consensus on how to deal with the "too big to fail" dilemma: wait for the current reform process to play out, but be ready to significantly increase capital standards if the problem remains unsolved.
Joe Adler | May 14
A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center backs the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s "single-point-of-entry" strategy, but says congressional changes to the bankruptcy code could also do the trick.
Katie Gillespie | May 14
The Federal Reserve Board said that eighteen of the largest U.S. bank holding companies will release partial results of their midyear stress tests to regulators on July 5.
Katie Gillespie | May 14
The top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Mike Crapo, is requesting more information about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data collection practices, claiming that the agency has been "evasive."
Richard J. Parsons | May 14
Accept the limitations of quantification exercises. Management should focus on identifying and mitigating risks that alone or in combination could cause a bank to fail.
Alex J. Pollock | May 14
The central bank is too big, too leveraged, extremely short-funded and a frequent creator through its interest rate and money-printing actions of gigantic systemic risk.
Victoria Finkle | May 14
Sen. Elizabeth Warren renewed her inquiry Tuesday into whether government officials have conducted any analysis into the trade-offs of settling an enforcement action without requiring an admission of guilt versus going to trial.
Christopher Cole | May 14
The bill would replace the misleading risk-based capital system with a straightforward way to determine the true health of an institution, in addition to providing incentives for the largest banks to downsize.
