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Until a mechanism to shut the biggest and baddest is well in place, the prospect of taxpayer bailout will distort financial markets and handicap competitors.

For all their analytic complexity, the Basel capital standards simplemindedly view each type of risk in isolation. In reality, an increase in one type of risk may lower another.

The swap execution facility regime in Dodd-Frank, once championed as the magic pill to cure the problems in the derivatives market, is turning out to be less potent than hoped.

Receiving Wide Coverage ...National News: A devastating tornado swept through Oklahoma yesterday. Full news coverage: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times

Following ample debate over whether JPMorgan Chase’s CEO should lose his chairman title, there’s no clear indication of how Tuesday's shareholder vote will play out.

Use risk-based capital only as a supplement to a meaningful leverage test, combined with traditional judgment-based safety and soundness supervision.

Celeste Cook, founder and President/CEO of cuStrategies, LLC, gives nine ways to open doors for your credit union and how to keep them open for new opportunities.

Have credit unions simply become too sophisticated for volunteer board members to oversee? To understand? To manage any longer?

Roger A. Licht, President of Credit Union One, asks why the sale of US Central HQ is secret.

Know-your-customer, an essential precaution, must be coupled with know-your-employees. A host of instances highlight the involvement of employees in fraudulent transactions – in most cases in league with customers.