Law and regulation

Shannon McGahn, who worked with the Financial Services Committee during the Dodd-Frank debate, will run the panel's staff.

GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardener, Mass., has completed its acquisition of Monadnock Community Bank.

Collection law firm Peroutka and Peroutka has settled charges brought by the Justice Department that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to accept calls using Video Relay Service.

The President's nominee for the No. 3 job at the Justice Department would face tough questions from congressional Republicans over an issue critical to banks.

Regulators are expected to finalize many rules in 2013. The financial industry could see an overflow of final regulations, many of which are mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.

What the FHA calls its "capital" actually includes claims about what it might earn in the future. Bankers would get laughed at for trying the same ploy.

Washington's budget deal contained mixed news for banks; HSBC sought to downsize it branches; and rivals pushed ahead with efforts to replace bricks and mortar with phones and cameras.

The Treasury Department has threatened to punish JPMorgan for failing to turn over documents to regulators investigating the bank's ties to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Visitors of the Vatican Museum in Vatican City will need cash to buy tickets and souvenirs in the aftermath of Italy’s central bank ordering all payment terminals deactivated, AFP reported Jan. 3.

In a Q&A with PaymentsSource, CEO Philip Beck explains how technology can help manage the complexity of international payments and the value proposition it brings to merchant acquirers.

Overaggressive growth, reliance on commercial real estate lending and use of brokered deposits were strategies common to banks that failed in the crisis, a government report said Thursday.

Banks have been granted more time to comply with new restrictions on swaps activities by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Thursday it would allow more time for banks to comply with new restrictions on swaps activities.

Bankers are expected to learn in 2013 what trades the Volcker Rule allows, what qualifies as a "qualified mortgage" and what it means to be "systemically important."

Small banks continue to rake in revenue from interchange fees on debit cards, despite fears that the Durbin amendment would hurt them as much as larger institutions, according to a report released by the Federal Trade Commission.

Large numbers of yield-hungry banks have gorged on municipal bonds, and the industry’s overall holdings of the paper have edged up.

If things are truly bigger in Texas, then mPowa CEO Dan Wagner figures it's a good place for merchants to be able to accept credit card payments via mobile devices in those wide, open spaces.

Chairmen of the House Financial Services Committee requested to postpone the Volcker Rule until 2015 only three weeks after U.S. regulators said they would delay the Jan. 1 start date for new capital requirements.

Exorbitant costs, excessive complexity torpedo review program. But a proposed $10 billion settlement faces problems of its own.

BankThink editors Marc Hochstein and Jeanine Skowronski recap 10 of the blog's posts they found most memorable in 2012.