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The FDIC invited luminaries like Paul Volcker and John Reed to evaluate their plan to seize and unwind a troubled megabank – and probably didn’t like what they said.

Financial institutions and their respective lawyers are in the process of understanding the final Volcker Rule.

A response to Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren.

The challenge of how to responsibly extend small-dollar credit can be met, and it starts with knowing the needs of the borrower.

Receiving Wide Coverage ...What's Another $2 Billion at This Point? Paul Volcker and his eponymous rule have been hogging the financial headlines for far too long this week. Time for JPMorgan Chase to take back its usual place at the center of the spotlight, today with news that it's nearing yet another multi-billion-dollar payout to government authorities. This one involves jailed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and a deferred-prosecution agreement for actual criminal charges against JPMorgan for turning a blind eye to Madoff's scam as it banked him, anonymice tell the papers.

The issues Google solves with KitKat were among its biggest hurdles, but it's still too soon to declare a winner in the mobile wallet race.

The real mobile revolution in opportunity for small business payments is occurring not in consumer wallets, but on the other side of the counter, with disruption in the point of sale terminal market.

The Dodd-Frank Act requires banks with at least $10 billion of assets to conduct annual stress tests, but experts say many banks below the outset already have a process or have plans to begin testing.

There may well be too many banks in the United States. That’s a problem for stock investors and CEOs of publicly traded banks to address, not policymakers.

After three years with regulators at odds with each other, the five agencies have finalized Dodd-Frank's Volcker Rule.