Dodd-Frank

Banks, Wall Street critics and regulators are angling to define whether the leverage ratio should be a backstop or a binding constraint for the biggest banks – a debate that could be among the most urgent in the post-Obama regulatory landscape.

Though no legislation is likely to pass prior to the election, lawmakers will be busy throughout September with hearings featuring top Federal Reserve Board officials and voting on a much anticipated financial reform bill. Here are five things to keep an eye on.

Regulatory infighting over bond loans offered by down payment assistance programs has the potential to curtail lending to first-time buyers and do real damage to homeownership.

Emboldened by supportive comments from presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, community development banks are asking regulators for more leniency in areas such as disclosure fees and Bank Secrecy Act enforcement.

A federal district court handed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a major victory this week by ruling that the online loan servicer CashCall engaged in unfair, deceptive and abusive practices by using a "tribal model" to collect on loans in states with usury caps.

Big banks have less than a month to fix their resolution plans – or potentially face severe regulatory consequences.

The largest U.S. banks are starting to question whether the advanced approaches modeling program embedded in the Basel accords is still valuable in a world where their capital levels are increasingly dictated by the annual stress tests and a supplementary leverage ratio.

A longtime advocate for African-American-owned financial institutions argues that regulators should be taking more forceful action to keep them alive.

Banks and regulators both deserve credit for how they have navigated the post-crisis period, but how regulators continue to implement rules — and how banks continue to deal with this environment — will determine if this is a turning point for finance or the prelude to another round of pain.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., sent a letter to federal regulators Monday requesting an analysis of bank trading data that is being collected as part of the Volcker Rule.