Dodd-Frank

WASHINGTON – Financial regulators are proposing changes to their standards for evaluating institutions’ compliance with consumer protection rules to account for the evolution in supervisory approaches since the standards were adopted in 1980.

A federal appeals court case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising concerns that if the agency loses, it could open the floodgates for a flurry of other lawsuits against the CFPB.

Reflecting on his economic legacy, President Obama disputes the conclusion in "The Big Short" movie that nothing changed on Wall Street after the 2008 economic meltdown, and maintains that his policies have helped stabilize the financial sector.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray sent a four-page response to Sen. Bob Corker, R.-Tenn, about new mortgage disclosures but fell short of providing any new official guidance to address industry concerns.

Advocates on the left and the right routinely assert that "too big to fail" is still with us and that Dodd-Frank and other post-crisis reforms have not secured the financial system from excessive risk, and the public seems to agree. So where does regulatory policy go from there?

A number of banks have recently crossed $10 billion in assets, where caps on interchange fees and mandatory stress testing kick in, and more are set to pass the threshold shortly. Here is a look at the annual toll regulation will take on many of those institutions.

The newly released interagency net stable funding ratio proposed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Tuesday once again trains its focus on the largest and most internationally active U.S. banks, requiring them to hold stable liquid funding for at least a year.

The courts would not be getting involved in defining the reach of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if the architects of the agency had instituted a commission to oversee it.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered the New Jersey law firm Pressler and Pressler and a debt buyer to pay $2.5 million for allegedly filing "mass-produced" lawsuits against consumers based on nonexistent debts.

The core problem with the living wills, as with other tools in the Dodd-Frank Act to end “too big to fail,” is that they are by definition an attempt at predicting future events.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are set to release Tuesday a long-awaited proposal to require the biggest banks to retain more liquidity to withstand a prolonged crisis.

Regulators had a litany of complaints about big banks' living wills in the assessments released last week, covering everything from cash flow to operational decision making, but one that is flummoxing bankers is an item they say is out of their control: ring-fencing.

Banking regulators made several critically important changes in their new plan to restrict executive pay at financial institutions after their first attempt flopped in 2011. Here's what they did.

Federal regulators unveiled a long-awaited proposal Thursday designed to target incentive-based pay arrangements for executives at banks and credit unions, the agencies' second attempt after their initial plan met fierce resistance.

Despite his loss in the New York primary on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz is fighting hard to win the Republican nomination. But eliminating the CFPB could be an even tougher challenge if he is eventually elected president.

Continued doubts over ending "too big to fail" should force managers to elevate underappreciated staff whose job is to attack oncoming risks.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it would allow banks with less than $50 billion in assets to request off-site examination of loan files, a move intended to reduce the regulatory burden for smaller institutions.

A federal appeals panel appeared receptive to striking two works from the Dodd-Frank Act that says the CFPB's director can be removed "for cause." Here's what that would mean.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council adopted a series of staff recommendations that narrowed its broad inquiry into the asset management industry, but appeared to defer to the Securities and Exchange Commission for further regulatory action.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Monday expanded on his views about the state of financial regulation while casting doubt on the "total loss absorbing capacity" concept for bailing in failed banks.