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The Ohio Democrat and chair of the Senate Banking Committee acknowledged banks’ existing privacy obligations under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act but argued that the 1999 law did not go far enough to address the privacy landscape of 2022.

Jelena McWilliams is joining the firm following her high-profile exit from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

The supervisory checkups examine the capital resiliency of 34 large banks.

As the potential for a recession looms, the New York bank is continuing with its plan to grow wealth management and shrink its foreign consumer banking footprint.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu lauded the agencies' unified Community Reinvestment Act proposal's focus on climate policies, while Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard trumpeted the data-driven aspects of the proposal.

To create sensible rules around decentralized finance, regulators have to have an open discussion with businesses in the industry. To do that, they must create a path for collaboration.

The president invited Jerome Powell to the White House Tuesday and voiced his support of the Federal Reserve’s independence in the fight against inflation. Some see the move as Biden ducking blame for rising prices.

The Federal Reserve is about to start shrinking its $8.9 trillion balance sheet, deploying a second tool along side higher interest rates to curb inflation, though officials don’t know just how effective it will be.

On the issue of large regional mergers, former FDIC heads Sheila Bair and Thomas Hoenig said that presuming banks with more than $100 billion of assets are systemically important is “regulatory overreach.”

President Biden used a rare meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to declare that he’s respecting the central bank’s independence — while simultaneously shifting responsibility for taming decades-high inflation ahead of the November midterms.

The National Credit Union Administration barred three former credit union employees from participating in the affairs of any federally insured depository institution.

The system may be good for the banks that own it, but it is not meeting its public mission.

The government-sponsored enterprises will start releasing information similar to what large banks already do, starting in the first quarter of 2023.

The agency recently updated a policy document to include technological innovation as a top priority and said it was considering creating a safe harbor for those who develop new products to fight financial crimes.

Banking groups are concerned that their long-fought-for Office of Supervisory Appeals Committee was disbanded without public comment.

George's departure will come around the same time that Chicago Fed chief Charles Evans steps down. Both will have turned 65.

The amount of money parked at a major Federal Reserve facility climbed to yet another all-time high, surpassing the $2 trillion milestone for the first time, as investors struggled to find places to invest their cash in the short term.  

As it walks away from retail here, the French bank wants to help business clients go abroad: “You have to be present.”

Wall Street lenders are calling on the U.S. government to hold off on launching a digital dollar, arguing that a virtual currency backed by the Federal Reserve risks draining hundreds of billions of dollars out of the banking system.

The firms respectively settled the regulator’s allegations about suspicious activity reports and the duty of best execution — two major areas of emphasis.