The Ohio regional will start offering advisory services to professional athletes after it buys Franklin Street Partners.

Seth Frotman, whose student lending unit had been gutted in May, said the bureau's current leadership "has abandoned its duty to fairly and robustly enforce the law.”

Since John Turner took over as CEO in July, Regions has announced several executive appointments, including promoting Kate Danella to oversee strategic planning.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Finance Agency, which supervises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, formed a pact to share information and coordinate investigations of potential fair-lending violations.

The agency developed measures taking effect Aug. 31 that, among other things, will allow lenders to prioritize foreclosures of the most impaired loans and then focus on modifying salvageable ones.

The expanded credit access in its automated mortgage decisioning goes into effect in mid September.

The fate of Capital One's acquisition of Discover should be determined based on its own merits and not be maligned for the foibles of other failed banks.

The OCC's new Vital Signs initiative gives bankers an important tool to help them assess the financial health and stability of their customers, and to help them build a strong foundation for the future.

The focus should be on the millions of Americans whose credit reports contain serious errors, and who are increasingly desperate for relief.