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American Banker editors discuss the White House's latest attempt to force the Senate to confirm Richard Cordray as CFPB director.

Carve-outs are giving rise a good bank/bad bank acquisition model.

For consumers, transferring banks is more difficult than it sounds. For banks, losing shifting deposits can make for surprising winners and losers.

The world now knows which 28 giant banks will be required to post extra capital. Much else about the Basel III regime remains uncertain.

American Banker's editors discuss Wal-Mart's latest attempt to eat bankers' lunch.

Regulators are writing massive, complex rules that will be impossible to enforce. Editor at Large Barbara A. Rehm offers an alternative.

As Dodd-Frank regulations come into focus, critics say they're complex to the point of being unworkable. Here's a simple solution.

Analysts believe that community banks face new challenges in 2012 after addressing capital and credit issues.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sets up offices to oversee three financially vulnerable groups.

Denial, community pressures and pricing issues are some of the reasons more banks aren't selling. That cannot last forever, a roundtable of analysts told American Banker.