Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

As financial institutions find themselves at the center of political fights on topics like energy financing, marijuana and guns, they should avoid caving in to activist demands.

The legislation carves out protections for smaller banks to offer abusive loans to borrowers under the "qualified mortgage" standard, as long as they hold those loans in portfolio.

In providing aid, banks can earn Community Reinvestment Act credit and burnish their reputation.

The legislation up for debate in the Senate reduces regulatory burdens for midsize financial institutions, a good step forward in amending the Dodd-Frank Act.

Santander's Ana Botin is plotting to make the global banking giant even bigger. Senators suspect a Wall Street cover-up of sexual harassment, and Capital One gets sued by the NAACP.

Financial agencies must prepare themselves to evaluate the practical effects of automated decision-making in lending and other programs to better detect fair-lending violations.

Eno is into reality TV, says Capital One's head of artificial intelligence. Who's afraid of big, bad Amazon? Not Nandita Bakhshi. Goldman Sachs won’t be breaking any glass ceilings. Plus, a study on sexual harassment in banking.

Banks need to figure out how to provide more value to customers or nonbank financial services companies could displace them.

As the agency pulls back its enforcement efforts, it opens the door for state authorities to pursue more cases against financial startups for their data collection and privacy practices.

As policymakers take another crack at housing finance reform, federal leaders and the housing lobby are once again perpetuating the false notion that ending government guarantees would cause the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage to vanish.