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Eugene Scalia, former Secretary of Labor and the banking lobby's lawyer on retainer for a potential challenge to Washington's capital reform effort, discusses the state of administrative law after the overturning of a key legal precedent.

Silvergate's former CEO and onetime chief risk officer settled allegations that they misled investors about the strength of the bank's anti-money laundering compliance program. Meanwhile, Silvergate's former CFO denied separate allegations by the SEC and vowed to defend himself in court.

Ficklin has been the CFPB's only fair lending director since 2011, establishing the office under Elizabeth Warren and pushing fair lending enforcement beyond mortgages into other financial products such as credit cards.

The court didn't rule on the merits of any regulation, but made it much easier to challenge rules governing banking.

The bank has seen positive returns expanding its national branch network, but it is contending with fraudsters who are increasingly targeting branches.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told Synapse's partner banks, fintech companies and investors to pool together resources to immediately restore customer's access to deposits frozen in lengthy bankruptcy proceedings.

Even as more transactions go fully digital via apps and devices, one card manufacturer is betting that metal payment cards have a long-term future as status symbols — and secure payment devices.

CRTs have changed since the financial crisis. But the eventual credit cycle turn is likely to show again that weaker banks' CRT use merely transformed, but did not eliminate, risk.

In this edition of American Banker's news quiz, test yourself on the Synapse bankruptcy, the growth of alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Funding Circle's sale of U.S.-based assets and more.

Banking experts are divided on how regulators will reshape the capital overhaul and if reported revisions being floated by regulators will meet the banking industry's demands.