Joe Adler

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced enforcement orders against four mortgage insurance firms that allegedly provided kickbacks to lenders, but the agency signaled additional actions are in the offing.

Responding to feedback from community banks about the need for more technical assistance, the FDIC unveiled the first of three online video series to help train new officers and directors.

Small-business loans resulting from a government program jumped by 20% during the fourth quarter, with the Treasury estimating it has helped more than 38,000 total loans since it began nearly two years ago.

More than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Obama administration to "repudiate" Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks suggesting some banks are "too big to jail."

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which appoints a chairperson on a rotating basis, named Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry to a two-year term.

Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been gone from the Obama administration since January. But apparently he is also saying farewell to the Washington real estate scene.

With debates about dealing with large firms still persisting in the U.S., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is expanding its international presence to prepare for cross-border bank cleanups.

FDIC Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig reiterated his hope Wednesday for a big-bank breakup, and said ending the Transaction Account Guarantee program did not result in significant deposit transfers.

Instead of its just releasing out-of-court agreements on request, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has devoted an area of its website for posting settlement documents that will be updated regularly.

WASHINGTON — The federal bank regulators on Monday proposed several revisions to their guidance for complying with Community Reinvestment Act regulations.

A levy assessed on bank customers for their savings — as is being proposed in the Cyprus bailout — seems unimaginable in the U.S., yet may stoke bank runs in Europe and elsewhere.

If Chuck Schumer and Sherrod Brown ever met on the playground, we doubt they would engage in just garden-variety trash-talking.

The TV show Parks and Recreation used the made-up bailout of a fictional video rental store to satirize the government's response to the 2008 financial crisis.

Elizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate turned senator, reiterated her call on lawmakers to vote on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman gave an update on the agency's community bank work and said the agency is on target to reach a statutory minimum for insurance reserves.

State regulators in Georgia Friday closed the $259 million-asset Frontier Bank in LaGrange, the fourth institution to fail this year.

The Financial Services Roundtable last week announced the hiring of Eric Hoplin to be the group's vice president of communications and organizational strategy.

Despite companies' strong performance in the Federal Reserve capital simulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, stress tests for the largest banks have really only just begun.

The biggest financial companies received their first official report cards of Dodd-Frank stress tests on Thursday, with Bank of New York leading the pack while Ally Financial fell far behind.

Rep. Maxine Waters, the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, said she and some colleagues are frustrated with the pace of work to implement diversity provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.