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The agency confirmed that Fannie and Freddie are considering alternatives to the current compensation model, which administration officials called "broken."

A Financial Crimes Enforcement Network plan to require banks to report all international wire transfers to the government is fundamentally flawed, according to several banks.

Recently released terms of the Small Business Lending Fund are fueling fears that may discourage participation in the program.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau struck a deal Tuesday with state bank supervisors to coordinate supervision and implementation of consumer protection rules.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday with state banking regulators to coordinate supervision and implementation of consumer protection rules.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council was created to identify systemic risks and act to disarm them. But the first five months of the council's existence have been underwhelming.

The Office of Comptroller of the Currency and Office of Thrift Supervision said that overall credit quality of the portfolio of first-lien mortgages remained steady during the third quarter of 2010 but a large number of seriously delinquent borrowers were moved through the foreclosure process after home retention efforts were exhausted.

The new regulator, brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, has a broad mandate and a big budget, but still no director. How aggressively will it move?

If the FDIC has its way, federal regulators would not wait for Congress to create national servicing standards, but instead write such rules as part of risk retention guidelines.

Former Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan will rejoin the law firm Covington & Burling to chair the firm's financial institutions group.

Derivatives trading by commercial banks dropped sharply in the third quarter as net current credit exposures increased, according to a report issued Friday by the OCC.

Not content to just vote against Joseph's Smith's nomination as FHFA head, Sen. Richard Shelby lodges "lapdog" accusation; CFPB gets tech leadership; FDIC shuffles key officials; and more.

Derivatives trading by commercial banks dropped sharply in the third quarter as net current credit exposures increased, according to a report issued Friday by the OCC.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner supported calls for a national servicing standard on Thursday, adding his voice to other regulators who have promoted the idea.

Richard Cordray, David Silberman and Leonard Chanin have been hired for key positions in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The number of suspicious activity reports related to possible mortgage fraud jumped by nearly 7% in the first half of the year, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Sen. Ted Kaufman and New York Banking Superintendent Richard Neiman said regulators should draft a federal standard to address lapses in current loan modification programs.

The Congressional Oversight Panel issued a report Monday declaring the administration's Home Affordable Modification Program a failure.

Mike Brosnan will become the senior deputy comptroller for large bank supervision while Vance Price and Sally Belshaw will become portfolio managers for large banks as deputy comptrollers for large bank supervision.

Though regulators have been vague about what kinds of national servicing standards they hope Congress will enact next year, momentum appears to be growing behind the concept.