Stacy Kaper

The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing Tuesday on foreclosure mediation efforts. The hearing, to be chaired by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is meant to highlight a bill he introduced last week to let bankruptcy courts urge servicers to discuss alternatives to foreclosure with troubled homeowners.

The White House's removal of Joseph Smith as a nominee to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency does not bode well for an administration facing so many regulatory jobs to fill, observers said Friday.

The White House's removal of Joseph Smith as a nominee to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency does not bode well for an administration facing so many regulatory jobs to fill, observers said Friday.

After more than 18 months of research and investigation, the report heralded as the definitive look back at the 2008 turmoil proved anticlimactic.

Senate leaders announced Sen. Tim Johnson as the Senate Banking Committee chairman Thursday, as well as releasing the rest of their committee assignments.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito has had some vexing questions about Dodd-Frank Act and other reforms, and now she has the power to address them.

The absence of banking issues from the State of the Union speech was logical two years after the crisis, but the President's silence on areas still in turmoil disappointed lawmakers.

House lawmakers traded barbs Tuesday over funding for two key agencies carrying out the Dodd-Frank Act.

Rep. Randy Neugebauer, the chairman of the House Financial Services Oversight Subcommittee, said it is time for the government to admit its foreclosure prevention efforts are a failure and should be shut down.

A Treasury official cut mortgage bankers some slack after facing much criticism; House Democrats announced its members for the House Financial Services Committee; and more

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus announced that his panel's first hearing since Republicans won control of the House will be on jobs and the economy, the GOP's main theme for this Congress.

The banking industry is mounting an assault on multiple fronts to weaken, stall or repeal the restrictions on debit interchange fees championed by Sen. Dick Durbin in Dodd-Frank.

The former head of CountryBank is set to become the ICBA's chief of staff; chief counsel to the Senate Banking Committee to join Promontory as a managing director; and more.

In his first official speech since becoming chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Bachus defended community bankers Thursday, telling examiners to back off ...

Rep. Scott Garrett, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee's capital markets subcommittee, rejected claims that the GOP had softened its attitude toward the GSEs.

A group of House Financial Services Democrats are raising questions about whether taxpayers will be fully protected under the terms of a recent settlement over poorly ...

Though the House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee are eager to start holding hearings, both panels are — for now — stuck in a holding pattern.

While Congress may be reluctant to take it on, mounting litigation over the legality of foreclosure proceedings could force the issue.

While 2010 was an all-out scramble by Democratic leaders to harness outrage over the financial crisis to push reg reform over the finish line, the legislative outlook for next year ...

While 2010 was an all-out scramble by Democratic leaders to harness outrage over the financial crisis to push regulatory reform over the finish line, the legislative outlook for next year is quite different.