Law and regulation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday urged student loan servicers to provide more help to consumers who apply for income-driven repayment plans.

Industry representatives pushed back against a report that continues to paint a negative picture of arbitration clauses just as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to restrict such agreements.

Pretty much every merger of insurers and banks since the Citi-Travelers deal has come undone, but today's conditions support new-style marriages that make sense for shareholders and customers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's choice for its new head of supervision and enforcement — the No. 3 slot at the agency — is raising eyebrows because of his political background and relative inexperience compared with similar positions at other regulators.

Mortgage servicers got what they asked for when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau limited the specificity of certain requirements in its final servicing rule. Now they may regret it.

Possible bad outcomes from the slowdown in bank chartering include less financial access in rural areas and further concentration of industry assets in just a few large banks.

California state lawmakers have dropped plans for legislation this year to create a new license for bitcoin companies.

California state lawmakers have dropped plans for legislation this year to create a new license for bitcoin companies.

Roughly 73% of donations from commercial banks' political action committees are going to Republicans in this election cycle, the most tilted toward one party by the banking industry in recent memory. Here's why.

This year federal and state regulators have started to pay closer attention to the rapidly evolving online-lending sector — particularly online small-business lending. What follows is a look at eight key players in the debate over how to regulate this emerging industry.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has downgraded the Community Reinvestment Act rating for BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. does not require all its administrative users to log into its systems using multifactor authentication, according to an audit released Friday by the agency's Office of Inspector General.

Banks and industry representatives are asking whether the proposed long-term liquidity rule properly takes into account the risk profiles of certain assets, the interaction with other liquidity rules, and even whether the regulation is needed at all.

Another data firm plans to seek regulatory certification as a credit bureau for payday lenders.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. Comments are excerpted from reader response sections of AmericanBanker.com articles and our social media platforms.

A new exam handbook released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is sparking concerns that the agency is quietly expanding heightened regulatory guidelines meant for larger banks to smaller institutions.

Payday lenders are pushing into more states with longer-term installment loans or lines of credit, a shift that is expected to accelerate with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's plan to regulate small-dollar loans.

A Federal Housing Finance Agency rule that will force some members of the Federal Home Loan Bank System out next year is likely to have a material effect on several of the cooperative institutions.

Mortgage lenders can expand their businesses by catering to borrowers who aren't proficient in English, but doing so requires strategic recruiting and hiring and compliance with federal and state regulations.

Those wanting to break up banks act as though policymakers had no regulatory response to the crisis, but here’s an illustration of how actual reforms would have prevented a large failure.