The compliance officer at Wunderlich Securities Inc. was well familiar with the rules for running a brokerage. That wasn't enough, however, to keep him and his firm out of serious regulatory trouble.

Jeffrey Gundlach looks set to follow another bond fund star, Bill Gross, into the business of actively managed exchange-traded funds.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, was subpoenaed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office for information on the company's activities leading into the credit crisis, two people familiar with the matter said.

A group of Senate Democrats have called on HUD Secretary Ben Carson to reverse his agency’s opinion that borrowers in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are ineligible for FHA loans.

There is bipartisan agreement in the Senate that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "too big to fail," but some lawmakers are skeptical that a SIFI designation is appropriate.

The president signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a White House council dedicated to examining regulatory barriers to affordable housing.

Your best future employees aren't looking for banking jobs. Successful hiring requires actively seeking out talent.

Two long-awaited developments — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data access proposal and the Federal Reserve's faster payments network debut — are slated for next year. The combined effect on consumer banking might be more consequential than we now know.

The U.S. should look abroad for innovative solutions to the problem of assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers with little formal credit history.