Law and regulation

The industry is better positioned than it was last year to weather a severe economic shock, according to the Fed, but the real test comes next week, when the central bank will release its latest evaluation of the sector's risk-management practices.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is seeking to create a regulatory sandbox that it hopes will allow fintechs and banks to experiment on innovations to the financial system.

Twenty current and former Democratic members of Congress sided with the Financial Stability Oversight Council in a legal brief filed Thursday, arguing that its designation of MetLife as a systemically important financial institution should not have been struck down in federal court.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., slammed a House GOP bill to reform financial regulation on Thursday, arguing it is being misrepresented by its author, Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling.

WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae has delayed the roll out of its new automated underwriting system that will require mortgage lenders to use trended data for the first time in submitting their loans for approval.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should have looked more closely at states like Colorado that protect consumers from true predatory lenders while still preserving access to credit.

Bank of America admitted to wrongdoing in settling a U.S. regulator's allegations that it misused billions of dollars in customer funds to finance trades that benefited the firm.

Community bankers are trying to determine how they can offer affordable small-dollar loans that fit within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's complex 1,341-page payday lending plan.

Mortgage servicers have failed to make significant investments in technology and compliance systems, resulting in substantial harm to consumers, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

WASHINGTON — Marijuana businesses and banks looking to open their doors to the potentially lucrative clients suffered a blow Wednesday after House Republicans blocked an amendment that would have prevented federal regulators from pursuing enforcement actions against banks dealing with the businesses in states with legalized pot.

WASHINGTON — Industry and consumer groups are calling on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to reduce the loan fees that homebuyers have to pay on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranteed mortgage loans.

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen signaled Wednesday that the central bank could support a House Republican effort to reduce banks' regulatory burden in return for institutions holding higher capital, but said such a deal should only be open to small banks.

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has created a new position tasked with developing compliance protocols and enforcing bank supervision policies.

The Federal Reserve Board's top two leaders on Wednesday defended the authority for resolving large company failures against criticism that the policy is a continuation of "too big to fail."

Michael Stegmanm President Obama's former point man on housing-finance reform, is taking a job with a think tank that has sought to play a major role in shaping rules for a world without mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — at least in their current form.

Evidence that regulators consider institution size when evaluating accounting compliance should encourage banks worried about the new loan-loss reserving standard.

Financial innovation, including distributed ledger technology and marketplace lending, has emerged as a new source of risk to the U.S. financial system, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

Resolution plans put in place following the financial crisis have made big banks expert at contingency planning. Nonetheless, bankers here are keeping their fingers crossed that Britain will remain in the European Union.

A quarter of African-American, Asian and female employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who responded to a survey experienced discrimination at the agency, according a new Government Accountability Office report.

Federal regulators will take decisive action if the biggest banks fail to improve their living wills by October, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen pledged to lawmakers on Tuesday.