Law and regulation

Two of the bank's top lobbyists have moved outside of traditional government relations to help guide policy for new consumer and wholesale products.

Poverty is the next big business in banking - but there are plenty of pitfalls before it becomes the next big success in banking.

The card-fee kerfuffle, CFPB vs. Cap One, a summer of scandals and earnings. As discussed by American Banker editors.

Looking for that comprehensive software package to handle Dodd-Frank compliance? Not finding it? "That stands to reason, given how few of the rules and regulations implementing the sweeping reform bill have been written," writes Bank Technology News editor Penny Crosman.

Ignoring JPMorgan Chase's chutzpah would be rewarding it. Penalize the bank instead, no matter how important an institution it is.

"Realizing that good information is fundamental to good supervision, the authors of [Dodd-Frank] created the Office of Financial Research," writes American Banker's editor-at-large, Barbara Rehm in her most recent column.

Dodd-Frank did its part to ensure the 20 federal financial regulatory agencies do right by minorities and women. How are things going so far? Good – but not great.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

Patterns in the private student-lending industry are dangerously similar to those seen in the housing market prior to its collapse, according to a study expected to be released Friday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Federal Reserve Board has put the kibosh on Virginia Commerce Bancorp's plan to start paying back the Treasury Department this summer.

The FDIC wants banks to remove its name from a fee that covers their deposit insurance assessments. Bankers say the instruction runs counter to complaints that bank fees are often too vaguely defined.

Habitat for Humanity, the non-profit homebuilder and lender, is concerned that overly strict standards on a borrower's ability to repay its loan could put it out of business.

The Federal Reserve Board has ended a written agreement with Premier Financial that required the Dubuque, Iowa, company to develop a plan to maintain sufficient capital and an adequate allowance for loan and leases losses.

A proposal by San Bernardino County to use eminent domain to take control of underwater mortgages would hurt government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks. It would also hurt plans to reduce the government's role in housing.

Magna Bank in Memphis, Tenn. has switched to a state charter, dumping the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in favor of a state regulator that management believes is more familiar with its local market.

The CEO of State National Bank of Big Spring faced pushback from House Democrats over his argument that Dodd-Frank is squeezing small banks.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is delaying a decision on the definition of "large market participant' for the collection industry, Peggy Twohig, assistant director of nonbank supervision for the agency said Thursday at ACA International's Annual Convention.

New analysis from a nonpartisan group shows that JPMorgan officials accounted for 18% of all industry meetings with the Fed concerning Dodd-Frank implementation over the past two years, while JPMorgan accounted for 17% of all meetings with Treasury. Goldman Sachs, which also held hundreds of discussions with regulators, focused mainly on the CFTC.

"The Daily Show" host took several sharp stabs at the growing Libor scandal on Wednesday night, equating the bankers that manipulated the interbank lending rate with the villains of a "Da Vinci Code"-type thriller.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council voted to designate eight financial-market utilities as "systemically important." They will will be subject to heightened risk management standards under Dodd-Frank.