Joe Adler

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.

What will the next big legislation look like? We asked academics, analysts and former top regulators to weigh in.

TBTF may just be the cool "in" phrase for the wealthy libertine set, according to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Quarterly Banking Profile described an industry gaining health, but it still faces several key challenges to maintaining growth.

Banks and thrifts earned $34.7 billion in the fourth quarter to close out 2012 with the second biggest full-year profit ever, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday.

The FDIC and the European Commission earlier this month held the first of what is expected to be two "working group" meetings this year on international coordination.

A regulatory plan that changes how banks must account for holdings on their books is stirring anxiety in the financial services industry that it may force banks to make a premature decision about what they intend to do with an asset.

The American Bankers Association announced Feb. 12 that Jason Kratovil has been hired as vice president and deputy executive director for the ABA's Card Policy Council. His first day is Feb. 19.

A report by the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets blog highlights which lawmakers are often borrowers.

The new proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board would reduce the number of categories used to classify loans and securities.

As part of a report on "high risk" areas in government, the Government Accountability Office expanded the scope of its review of regulatory issues to include the Federal Housing Administration.