Lalita Clozel

IBM is set to announce new tools on Wednesday aimed at reducing the compliance burden of financial institutions and sifting through the mounds of data they collect by using Watson, its cognitive computer.

Ahead of a vote on a bill that would eliminate orderly liquidation authority, supporters of those powers are proposing changes to make OLA more palatable to conservatives.

The group representing large banks argued in a report Friday that overlapping regulations are hurting the industry's efforts to deal with cyberthreats.

The end of the filibuster for presidential nominees could affect whether Democrats get a say in picking board members of the FDIC.

A top Trump administration official on Thursday vowed to roll back FDIC powers to seize and unwind a failing megabank.

The FDIC's Quarterly Banking Profile was mostly good news for banks, showing higher profits and lower noncurrent loans, but loan growth remains a worry. Following are insights into bank earnings.

Bank earnings leaped to $44 billion in the first quarter, a 12.7% increase from a year earlier, but loan growth marked its first quarterly slowdown since 2013.

The acting Comptroller of the Currency named longtime OCC official Michael Sullivan as deputy comptroller for economics.

Banamex USA will pay $97.4 million to the Justice Department over widespread anti-money-laundering abuses.

Jim Donovan, nominated in March, was one of many Goldman Sachs alums to join the administration.

Bradley Linskens, the former top examiner of Wells Fargo at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, sued the agency Tuesday over records requests he had made related to his removal earlier this year.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched an office dedicated to exploring fintech issues, the agency’s head announced Wednesday.

The bank is pitching digital identity products to businesses as a way to improve user experience and guard against fraud.

New York’s banking regulator on Friday filed its own individual lawsuit against the OCC's fintech charter, asking the courts to block it.

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to reinforce the country’s cybersecurity defenses, a move that financial institutions view as a positive step toward creating a more resilient financial system.

The announcement is the latest in a series of steps states are taking to make their licensing system more attractive to fintech companies.

There are barriers to possible efforts by acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika to act unilaterally to change the Volcker Rule.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors announced a raft of initiatives on Wednesday designed to make the state licensing system more attractive to fintech companies.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s fintech charter could provide a workaround to a Dodd-Frank Act provision that slashed preemption for operating subsidiaries.

Guaranty Bank & Trust in Milwaukee was shut down by federal regulators Friday, just a week after one of the costliest failures since the crisis.