Joe Adler

Deborah Matz, a former credit union executive and Clinton administration official, was sworn in Monday as the chairman of the National Credit Union Administration.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is to give a progress report Thursday on the industry's efforts to make profits amid still-volatile conditions.

The growing number of failures this year — now more than three times their total for all of 2008 — has pushed the chances of a second special deposit insurance premium to a near certainty.

WASHINGTON — Following the largest failure of the year, and the collapse of a small mutual in Pennsylvania, regulators shut three western banks late Friday ...

WASHINGTON — Following the largest failure of the year, and the collapse of a small mutual in Pennsylvania, regulators shut three western banks late Friday, bringing the year's failure total to 77.

Just days after federal authorities launched a probe of alleged accounting irregularities at Colonial BancGroup Inc., its $25 billion-asset bank collapsed Friday.

Just days after federal authorities launched a probe of alleged accounting irregularities at Colonial BancGroup Inc., its $25 billion-asset bank collapsed Friday.

Six degrees of separation from Eugene Ludwig; online poll suggests Ben Bernanke will get a second term as Fed chairman; top FDIC lobbyist takes a job with the SEC.

A coordinated effort to save a small Pittsburgh mutual, which had fallen victim to fraud, failed late Friday as it was taken over by regulators.

A coordinated effort to save a small Pittsburgh mutual, which had fallen victim to fraud, failed late Friday as it was taken over by regulators.

Pressure is growing on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to finalize rules governing private-equity ownership of banks as it stares down three likely failures.

An oversight report cited the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Monday for being slow to address problems at a Georgia community bank, which failed in December.

Whether a banker wants the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to extend its blanket guarantee for non-interest-bearing deposits turns mainly on his view of the economy.

Regulators closed two community banks in Florida, and one in Oregon, Friday evening to bring the year's failure total to 72.

CBA cuts seven jobs; interim OTS chief defends agency by spreading the blame; Seattle CU gives customers a chance to tell why they left a commercial bank; and more.

Federal banking regulators Thursday urged servicers to avoid conflicts of interest when modifying loans on properties with other liens.

Regulators closed institutions in five states late Friday, bringing the year's toll to 69 and leaving the FDIC with almost $1 billion more in losses.

Almost a year since the idea was first raised by policymakers as a solution to the credit crisis, the FDIC went forward Friday with a plan to auction off toxic assets from a failed bank.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said Thursday that existing industrial loan companies should be grandfathered and not forced to convert to bank holding companies, thus breaking with the Obama administration's regulatory reform plan.

The House approved a bill Wednesday that aims to ease the burden on banking agencies' inspectors general by significantly raising the trigger for an investigation of a failed bank.