Law and regulation

Roger Ferguson is hedging his bet that regulators will go along with his plan to turn TIAA into a financial supermarket.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has met the requirements for convening small-business review panels, though most panelists said they disagreed with the agency's final rules, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 has not had a negative impact on community banks, contrary to assertions by Republicans and many bankers, according to a group of White House economists.

A single paragraph in a lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is sparking fears by third-party payment processors that the agency is quietly and significantly expanding its authority over the industry.

The emergence of lenders that have no real connection to a geographic area prompts questions over how the Community Reinvestment Act's "good neighbor" policy can continue.

The U.S. is steadily building the foundation of a nationwide faster payments system, but not all of the pieces are connected. Many of the elements developed independently, with influence from across the globe.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP failed to spot for seven years a multibillion-dollar fraud that led to the demise of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., a lawyer for the lender's bankruptcy trustee told a Miami jury on Tuesday.

American International Group Chief Executive Peter Hancock said he's more focused on boosting returns than worrying about the government's classification of his company as a systemically important financial institution.

WASHINGTON — The biggest banks are supporting a bill that would ensure that all U.S. companies submit beneficial ownership information to authorities, arguing it would help combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

Financial reform advocacy groups are criticizing regulators' executive compensation proposal as too lax, saying the firms themselves are essentially given the freedom to ignore many of the harshest penalties

At best, the proposal to restore Glass-Steagall is outreach to Bernie Sanders supporters. But at worst, it suggests the GOP candidate isn't as anti-regulation as he claims to be.

The Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development has found a new ally in his fight to reform the down payment assistance programs run by HUD and state and local housing finance agencies.

WASHINGTON — In the midst of a monthslong congressional inquiry into its cybersecurity practices, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has issued a public statement outlining a slate of new data-protection measures.

In a speech Tuesday, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump pledged to temporarily suspend all new federal regulations if elected president, but even if he wins the White House, the plan may prove beyond his reach.

The biggest change in banking in the last 60 years is the shift in balance sheets from business lending to real estate finance and therefore more risk tied to volatile real estate prices.

Donald Trump will propose a temporary moratorium on new financial regulations in an economic speech Monday in Detroit in an effort to draw a stark contrast with the domestic policies of Hillary Clinton, who he says "punishes" the American economy.

With supervisory pressures continuing to mount, a piecemeal approach to handling banks’ regulatory demands is costly and ineffective.

The former officers and directors for Midwest Bank & Trust have reached a $26.5 million settlement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. over charges of negligence during the financial crisis.

The Indiana Senate race could prove to be the most important congressional race for bank policymaking if handshake deals propel former Sen. Evan Bayh to the top of the banking committee. But picking Bayh could start a civil war within the Democratic Party.

Financial regulators issued a long-awaited proposal Friday that would allow institutions with less than $1 billion in assets to file a short-form call report.