Dodd-Frank

Recent regulatory reform activity is a step in the right direction, but the changes envisioned in both a Treasury Department report and a suite of House bills are a mixed bag.

The bills were individual pieces of the larger Financial Choice Act, including measures to raise the systemic threshold for banks and raise the threshold for banks subject to CFPB supervision.

Deutsche and Barclays chiefs are under different pressures to turn their banks around; with mergers and acquisitions at a low, deal for OneMain would be big.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika on Thursday called for steps to ease the asset thresholds that determine whether banks are subject to certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Senate invoked cloture to begin the process of confirming Randal Quarles as a governor on the Fed board.

The agencies will give eight of the largest U.S. banks an extra year to file upcoming resolution plans, and suggested they may stretch out the filing schedule on a more ongoing basis.

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal would limit how much Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data is released to the public in an effort to protect consumer privacy.

Lawmakers like Sen. Tim Scott may feel differently about some elements in a Senate regulatory relief bill depending on whether CFPB Director Cordray is remaining in office until his term expires in July.

A recent failed-bank resolution in Europe may serve as a harbinger of how new authorities could cause problems in the U.S. and highlights the potential need for a modified bankruptcy process.

The Fed announced Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer will depart in October, giving Trump the ability to rapidly reshape the central bank and target Dodd-Frank Act rules.

The Federal Reserve’s plan to stop a bank bailout before it starts hasn’t been taken up more than five years since it was proposed.

Between Brexit, Dodd-Frank uncertainty and the mobile revolution, issuers and financial services companies must combine past performance data and forward-looking information to gain insight, writes Henri Wajsblat, director and head of financial services at Anaplan.

Readers weigh in on the end of President Trump's business councils, what the Charlottesville, Va., clashes mean for banks, OSHA's mishandling of Wells Fargo whistleblower claims, community banks' embrace of blockchain, and more.

Prudential Financial is laying the groundwork to escape the government's label that it's too big to fail, a move that would dramatically reduce federal oversight of the largest U.S. life insurer.

Size matters in the credit union industry, and in most cases, the biggest have a serious advantage. But reaching this particular threshold doesn’t come cheap.

Readers react to USAA teaming up with Amazon’s Alexa, how a new Wells Fargo’s scandal could affect arbitration rules, a digital identity startup’s ambitions, and more.

Efforts to repeal a Dodd-Frank mandate for lenders to report data on small-business applicants — including race and ethnicity — overlook the benefits of the provision to both communities of color and banks.

Most U.S. voters, including those who identify as Republicans, support the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a poll conducted in late June.

House lawmakers including Jeb Hensarling are preparing to move on a series of targeted regulatory relief bills in an effort to give Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, more leeway when he tries to craft a relief measure.

Readers slam credit unions’ ever-inclusive membership criteria, weigh in on the OCC’s proposed fintech charter, encourage a rewrite of the CRA, and more.