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When Gensler arrived at the SEC in 2021, he took on just about everything. Rules for stock-market trading, Treasury-security clearing, executive-pay disclosures, private equity, crypto, short-selling, climate-change risks, even AI: nothing seemed off limits. But now, three years later, to Big Finance, the verdict is clear: Gary Gensler overreached.

The leader of the Financial Services Forum takes issue with a recent BankThink article that challenged the industry's claims about proposed rules for implementing the Basel endgame capital requirements.

The Federal Reserve and New York State Department of Financial Services fined the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for violations related to a lack of internal controls for confidential supervisory information and anti-money-laundering compliance failures.

"Someone somewhere has not taken a victory lap for the work that has been done to rehabilitate the enterprises." Priscilla Almodovar said in a Bloomberg interview.

The new service will allow financial institutions to streamline the process for moving accounts and verifying income.

The top five banks and thrifts have a combined first mortgage loan volume of more than $1 trillion.

Past crises have created opportunities for criminal organizations to inject their funds into the legitimate banking system. Bankers can't allow that to happen again.

Companies like NCR Voyix, Salesforce and Sainsbury's are keen to deploy technology that used to be science fiction — such as scanning a shopper's eyes to access their accounts, or using AI to streamline checkout.

By overturning so-called "Chevron deference," the Supreme Court could compel lawmakers to be less ambiguous in their legislative language, limiting agencies' interpretative power.

Industry Bancshares' bond portfolio is massively underwater, and one of its regulators says the company is in "troubled condition." But Industry says it was already working on fixes prior to the OCC's intervention, which it calls an "unfortunate example of regulatory overreach."

The Cleveland-based regional bank was not well positioned for the sharp rise in interest rates last year. But executives say the year ahead will be different, pointing to strong credit quality and a repricing of Key's securities portfolio.

The Dallas bank's full-year results showed progress toward its long-term strategic goals despite a fourth-quarter drop-off in net interest income heavily tied to its mortgage business, executives said on an earnings call.

Despite a surge in quarterly expenses in the fourth quarter and a projected uptick in the first quarter, the North Carolina company is standing by its expense guidance for 2024.

Fourth-quarter net income at the Buffalo, New York, bank fell 37% because of higher funding costs and a special deposit insurance assessment. But lower interest rates and a stronger economy are expected to strengthen profits this year and into 2025, its CFO says.

A sharp increase in credit card account write-offs, a slowdown in consumer spending and heavy compliance costs triggered a 62% decline in fourth-quarter earnings.