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Two members of the House Financial Services Committee have been given new subcommittee assignments, the panel announced Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The Conference of State Bank Supervisors named Charles A. Vice, the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions, as the group’s chairman this week.

Henry Holt & Co. announced a deal with Elizabeth Warren for her account of founding the CFPB, her Massachusetts Senate race and advocacy for the middle class.

Scores of foreign banks with very small U.S. operations still find themselves drafting "living wills" to provide U.S. regulators with a road map to their hypothetical failures, leading to calls for a lighter requirement.

Washington Post blog tries giving clarity around who used the analogy in a point about Japanese monetary policy. It was likely not Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke.

In a speech Wednesday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg moved closer to the views of other top officials who have already backed a higher ratio, and provided an update on global coordination of resolution plans.

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.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and other consumer groups say the bank regulators did not go far enough in proposing changes to Community Reinvestment Act examinations.

California accused JPMorgan of illegal tactics to sue thousands of credit card borrowers behind on their debts, including "robo-signing."

A new paper commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, highlights risks community banks face from the Dodd-Frank Act.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stands alone in announcing a lawsuit against Bank of America and Wells Fargo for violations of the $25 billion mortgage settlement. But that may soon change.

Sometimes the line between prudent bank security and excessive caution is a blurry one. The Onion offers some unique ways to protect your bank data, including beating your computer to bits with a pipe wrench.

The two U.S. bank subsidiaries of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group were hit with regulatory fines totaling nearly $14 million on Tuesday for what authorities called misleading marketing of their overdraft protection programs.

With a federal moratorium on commercial ownership of industrial loan companies coming to an end, the question of whether retailers and other nonfinancial firms should own banks has been turned on its head in the wake of the crisis and Dodd-Frank.

Sen. Sherrod Brown was flummoxed this week by a critic's description of herself as the "Judas goat" of Wall Street.

Banking analysts, former regulators, lawmakers, banking industry representatives and top academics spent more than an hour and a half debating how best to resolve the issue of "too big to fail" on Tuesday, and came away with no easy solutions.

Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and David Vitter, R-La., speaking at a forum co-hosted by American Banker, hinted at several potential changes from a draft copy of the legislation that was leaked to the media earlier this month.

Regulators seized two banks in Florida, and one in Kentucky, in a trio of failures Friday.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's has decided that trust-only banks must first get FDIC insurance, a move that may drive greater interest in state trust charters and subject some parties to a federal freeze on nonfinancial firms owning limited-purpose banks.

Scott Alvarez, the Federal Reserve Board's general counsel, told lawmakers that the Fed's use of special Dodd-Frank powers to take apart banks that are a "grave threat" to the economy would likely depend on the circumstances of each situation.