Kevin Wack is American Banker's national editor, and is based in southern California. He was formerly the publication's consumer finance reporter and its Capitol Hill correspondent. Earlier, he worked on financial policy in Washington. He has also reported for the Associated Press and worked as the investigative reporter for the Portland Press Herald in Maine.
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A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court's conservative majority means that defendants will have the right to a jury trial in cases where bank regulators are seeking civil penalties. The consequences for federal banking agencies are expected to be substantial.
June 27 -
The high court will determine how much deference judges should give to regulators in interpreting laws passed by Congress. The upcoming ruling has especially big implications for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has drawn the banking industry's ire.
June 18 -
Former executives from two banks that collapsed within two weeks of each other spoke Tuesday about lessons to be learned from the crisis.
June 12 -
Fifty-seven percent of financial services firms now operate on a hybrid basis, according to new research from American Banker. Some banks are finding ways to maximize the positive aspects and minimize the negative ones.
June 6 -
The National Rifle Association bagged a key victory in a case against a former top New York state official. The high court's ruling could make it harder for regulators to discourage financial institutions from doing business with specific industries.
June 3 -
The beleaguered Los Angeles-based bank reported its strongest quarterly results in more than a year, but executives at its Canadian parent company cautioned that improvements may not be linear.
May 30 -
Executives from JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are expected to get grilled in Congress this summer over victims of Zelle scams who don't get reimbursed. A Senate panel has spent much of the last year examining fraud on the bank-owned payments network.
May 22 -
After a California woman spent more than a decade obtaining reparations for Nazi plundering of her family's belongings, the money disappeared from her bank account. Her saga highlights a gap in fraud cases between what consumers expect from their banks and what those banks are in a position to deliver.
May 8 -
Gary Farro's testimony focused on both the banking activity of Michael Cohen, a former Trump attorney who paid $130,000 to an adult film actress in 2016, and First Republic Bank's due diligence work.
May 5 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is arguing that Colorado has the right to establish an interest rate cap that all state-chartered banks must follow. Three industry groups are suing the state in an effort to stop its attempted crackdown.
April 28
