Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

A proposal to ease the leverage ratio for the country’s largest institutions raises questions about whether safety and soundness remain the top priority for the banking agencies.

Women in the pipeline get some attention from a room full of top banking industry executives celebrating the Most Powerful Women rankings. California is the first to impose a quota requiring companies to increase the number of women on boards, and the Fortune 500’s newest female CEO starts today.

Policymakers must avoid reforms to the Community Reinvestment Act that would reopen the door to the predatory lending practices that contributed to the mortgage meltdown.

The tech giants might be moving into small-business lending, but they’re more likely to take business away from large commercial lenders, not community institutions.

Financial institutions can take a few easy steps to ensure their leadership is more representative of their customer base, including looking outside of the industry for talent. Women and people of color are not that hard to find.

As financial institutions struggle to regain public trust, they need to find more systematic ways to gauge how their work impacts consumers and communities.

Federal and state regulators are at odds over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s new licensing program, but there are ways to improve current law to appease both sides.

The administration says it wants to focus on risky activities as opposed to individual nonbank firms. But there are big questions with that.

Despite obstacles that keep women from being equally represented in the boardroom, there are steps they can take to close the gap.

Financial institutions need to adapt their offerings to meet the preferences of these young consumers or they risk losing ground to fintechs and other nontraditional players.