Law and regulation

Our politics is far more belligerently partisan and dogmatic now than in 2008, and the memory of the public rage over the last bailout is very fresh.

Several pieces of banking-related legislation that were introduced — but not enacted — during the 112th Congress are due to make a repeat appearance in the just-begun 113th Congress. Here are some bills expected to get reintroduced, including everything from restructuring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reforms to stabilize the Federal Housing Administration and required disclosures of privacy notices.

Canada's right next door and has lots of English speakers, so it might seem the ideal place for American independent sales organizations to expand. But the two countries' business and cultural practices differ in ways that Americans may not expect.

TCF Financial (TCF) in Wayzata, Minn., will pay $10 million to settle an investigation by U.S. authorities into alleged money-laundering lapses.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is pushing back against a shareholder proposal to let investors vote on whether the bank should consider taking itself apart.

Freshman lawmaker Rep. John Delaney, who used to head commercial lender CapitalSource, discussed his priorities as a new member of House Financial Services Committee.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that President Obama did not have the authority a year ago when he filled three recess appointments to the NLRB — the same day he appointed Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Our analysis is agnostic on whether the costs are proportional to the benefits. But we find the claim that the CARD Act has had no cost to cardholders to be too hopeful based on current data.

Despite bipartisan nature of first vote, new House Financial Services Committee leaders still dispute effects of Dodd-Frank law.

A look at what the past record of Mary Jo White, the nominee to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, says about her future dealings Wall Street.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry and FDIC attorney Richard Osterman faced some pointed questions from members of a British parliamentary panel.

President Barack Obama on Thursday re-nominated Richard Cordray to continue leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Regulators took a series of enforcement actions against banks last month in connection with management oversight, capital adequacy and other matters.

The operators of a scheme that allegedly deceived consumers trying to sell their timeshare properties are permanently banned from the timeshare resale business.

"Richard Cordray was reintroduced Thursday as the administration's long-term choice to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but huge questions remain over whether his second nomination for the job is any more likely to be approved than his first," writes American Banker's Joe Adler.

Visa Inc. is urging its shareholders to reject a proposal by activist investors that would require the card network to reveal detailed information about its lobbying activities.

A new chorus of "too big to jail" broke out among the masses as the president prepared to re-nominate Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and CapOne disclosed disappointing earnings.

What the mortgage industry wanted was a clear-cut rule from the CFPB. What it received was 800-plus pages of confusion.

A computer hacker from the online activism group “Anonymous” was sentenced in Britain to 18 months in jail for conspiring to attack the websites of Visa Inc., PayPal Inc., MasterCard Inc. and others.

President Obama's renomination of Richard Cordray, who has been running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under a controversial recess appointment, is garnering the same GOP concerns expressed when his name was first floated.