Dodd-Frank

A modern version of the Depression-era law would not only make banks safer, but it would also reduce compliance costs and erase the need for certain capital mandates.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling said Thursday that odds are slim for major banking reforms to be included in the budget deal now being crafted, but unveiled ambitious plans for the coming year.

The House Financial Services Committee approved a data security bill Tuesday that would require all financial companies to have similar security protections and notification requirements as banks.

The window is rapidly closing for the inclusion of key banking measures in the budget package as lawmakers remain sharply divided over the bill.

Issues with upgrading software and ensuring pricing accuracy to comply with the consumer bureau's "integrated disclosures" have been magnified in wholesale loan transactions.

Attempts to sneak provisions into a final budget deal may be sold as helping community banks, but many of the measures really help big banks and undermine consumer protection.

Sen. Sherrod Brown took to the Senate floor Thursday afternoon to reiterate concerns over the Republican effort to move financial reform legislation through a must-pass spending bill.

Several lawmakers criticized efforts to include controversial banking policy riders in a yearend deal on Wednesday evening.

The sweeping, five-year highway bill may include some key concessions for small financial institutions, but the deal has left many in the industry frustrated. Here's why.

Congress has a packed agenda this December with major budget and transportation bills in the works that may contain key changes for the banking industry.

The government's new proposal for operationalizing the wind-down powers of Dodd-Frank is just institutionalizing "too big to fail."

The industry deserves credit for rebuilding the Deposit Insurance Fund after the crisis, but victory is far from achieved in preparing agency reserves for the next crisis.

Republican presidential contenders are off base when they claim the Dodd-Frank Act spurred the decline in community banks, which in fact predated the law.

A familiar fight is brewing on Capitol Hill over a yearend budget deal, as questions loom around whether Dodd-Frank changes will be included in the final package.

Presidential contender Hillary Clinton was put on the defensive about her donations from large financial institutions in the second debate Saturday of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination.

The Dodd-Frank Act was supposed to end the regulatory advantages that came from holding a thrift charter. But in the case of USAA, it hasn't worked that way.

Ally Financial in Detroit plans to redeem about $1.3 billion of preferred stock, opening the door to a possible stock buyback next year.

There were at least two bad omens for large banks in the Republican debate held late Tuesday — even the most business-friendly candidates felt free to sharply criticize them and many seemed ill-informed about the current system.

The American Bankers Association is deemphasizing the crisis-era fight over regulation and refocusing on the rising competitive threat posed by technology companies.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., are urging regulators to bolster new swaps rules in the wake of a controversial rollback of a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act last year.