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Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu Wednesday suggested the Financial Stability Oversight Council adopt a "tripwire approach" for systemic risk assessment, using systemic risk metrics to advance designations.

In implementing Section 1033, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is leaving out auto loans, one of the largest sources of consumer debt.

The combined company could streamline card payments in a manner similar to American Express' "three party network" — while also doing more with artificial intelligence and other technologies.

The blockbuster merger proposal will be reviewed at a time when the Biden administration is expressing skepticism about consolidation. Its analysis will have to account for markets dominated by both big banks and the likes of Visa and Mastercard.

The Pittsburgh company says its new president, Michael Lyons, will report to William Demchak, who will continue as chairman and chief executive. Lyons is positioned to become PNC's next CEO someday, observers said.

The Charlotte, North Carolina, company has agreed to sell its remaining 80% stake in its insurance brokerage unit to raise billions of dollars in cash and extra capital. The "wild card" is how Truist will deploy them, one analyst says.

It won't be easy, but implementing a common-sense overhaul of how we measure banks' liquidity would help avoid the kind of crisis we experienced in 2023.

Capital One Financial's proposed acquisition of Discover Financial Services would create a credit card behemoth with its own payments network. The deal is likely to draw tough regulatory scrutiny, though analysts say there are many compelling strategic reasons for the combination.

Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts asked Early Warning Services, which operates the payment platform Zelle, to clarify its reimbursement policy around impostor scams.

Ex-State Street exec joins Citizens Financial's board, payment software firm Toast will cut workers, Visa rolls out enhanced digital wallet tools and more in the weekly banking news roundup.

Amid an upturn in deposits, banks are searching for ways to put this new cash to work. The traditional option — boosting lending — is hard to do right now. That's left banks to park more money in high-quality securities that they believe will boost returns without heaping on too much credit risk.

His pay jump was greater than every other major U.S. bank CEO whose compensation has been disclosed.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said Friday that Fed supervisors continue to draw on lessons learned from last March's bank failures—including heightened scrutiny—addressing risks banks currently face including firm asset growth, liquidity pressures and plummeting commercial real estate values.

The bank is arguing in court with Viva founder Haris Karonis over whether it hindered the fintech's growth. The allegations strain a relationship that was already pressured by inflation and other economic factors.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pulled back from criticizing the Federal Home Loan banks, seemingly taking off the table the idea of changing the system's role as a lender to troubled banks.

The departures are occurring during a period of heightened U.S. political backlash against the environmental, social and governance investing strategy. Republican officials across the country have launched investigations into banks and asset managers, introduced anti-ESG laws and pulled funds from firms such as BlackRock, which championed sustainable investing.

The regulator's action indicates that — after years of overhauling its operations — the bank has finally shown it's in compliance with the agency's standards on sales conduct.

A Delaware chancery court judge ruled that JPMorgan's obligation to cover the costs of Javice's defense in its fraud suit against her, as well as a separate criminal prosecution, didn't extend to her claims that the bank wrongly terminated her roughly a year after it bought Frank, her college financial planning startup.

After focusing on cost control throughout much of 2023, including a round of job cuts, the Pittsburgh company has announced plans to expand in high-growth markets like Texas and refurbish more than 1,200 existing offices.

The government-sponsored enterprise financed 955,000 mortgages last year, down from the 1.8 million loans it backed in 2022.