Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Three years after the government put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on life support, a debate is still raging over how much the GSEs can be blamed for the housing crisis.

Former comptroller Eugene Ludwig talks about the competitive threat from unregulated financial firms and why banks should want the new consumer protection bureau to have a permanent director soon.

With General Electric buying deposits from MetLife, bankers have good reason to ponder the broader meaning to the competitive landscape.

Our roundtable panelists discuss the best ways that banks can deploy capital in 2012.

For Bank of America, its recent decision to sell credit card assets says a lot about its need to focus. For other bankers, it says a lot about the opportunity to become buyers.

Participants in a recent American Banker roundtable debated whether banks should keep adding deposits to build customer relationships down the road.

Banks are between a rock and a hard place these days in figuring out how to recoup the cost of doing business without sparking a public outcry.

Despite some notable gains in 2011, for senior women bankers it was a year of two steps forward and one step back.

As the number of bank failures declines, the FDIC must cope with both 800 remaining problem banks and the risks posed by a future crisis.

President Obama's decision to call an end-around and avoid opposition to his consumer bureau director runs a serious risk of backfiring.