Financial regulations

Readers weigh in on how women can advance in business, the regulatory playing field for banks and nonbanks, the CFPB's payday loan rule, ATM withdrawals made through mobile wallets, and more.

Randal Quarles becomes the first of President Trump's nominees to be confirmed to the Fed board and the first person to become vice chair of supervision at the central bank.

Day two of Equifax hearing focuses as much on business model as on the data breach; Fed chair again says she supports bank rules that are not "unduly burdensome."

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

The focus has been on CUs getting at least some of their corporate stabilization assessments back earlier than expected, but NCUA's real goal is to prop up the Share Insurance Fund.

While credit unions will likely be pleased with a rebate of as much as $800 million, that amount could have been significantly more, had the regulator not voted to raise the normal operating level.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule on arbitration clauses may be bad news for alleged corporate wrongdoers like Equifax and Wells Fargo, but surely for the victims of such wrongdoing — and for consumers, generally — it is good news indeed.

Who doesn't want cash back, and sooner than planned? Credit unions -- if it means they'll receive some $800 million less.

Sound Community Bank CEO Laura Lee “Laurie” Stewart has made a career of going against the grain, and her bank’s investors, employees and customers are all better for it.

JPMorgan Chase's top lawyer oversees a team of more than 1,900 legal professionals in 29 countries.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is broadening her probe into the data breach to look at whether the company should have disclosed the breach sooner and if it plans to claw back compensation.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule on arbitration clauses may be bad news for alleged corporate wrongdoers like Equifax and Wells Fargo, but surely for the victims of such wrongdoing — and for consumers, generally — it is good news indeed.

Without the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's expanding consumers' legal options, they will continue to be vulnerable to the abusive practices that have proliferated throughout the financial industry in recent years.

If you thought the process for health care reform was rough, just wait until tax reform gets going, said NAFCU's Dan Berger.

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was created after 9/11 to serve as a crucial federal backstop for commercial real estate insurers, but an analysis of alternatives to fund the program reveals the continued challenges of measuring and predicting terror risk.

By design, any practice that requires a customer to simply hand over online bank credentials to a third party is a terrible idea.

Fifth Third's Melissa Stevens targets millennials with new app. Meanwhile, regulators are accused of ignoring millennials. Plus, a Goldman Sachs wealth manager sues for discrimination.

By design, any practice that requires a customer to simply hand over online bank credentials to a third party is a terrible idea.

The nominations of Randal Quarles as Federal Reserve Board vice chairman and Joseph Otting as comptroller of the currency will now head to the full Senate.

States must recognize how their patchwork of different regimes stifles innovation, but they also have an opportunity to help maintain U.S. competitiveness in the global fintech marketplace.