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The GOP front-runner's record is a mix of free-market principles and deep pragmatism. He supported Tarp in 2008, opposes government intervention in foreclosures, and is less rigid than other Republicans on the question of future bank bailouts.

Wall Street's top institutions seem to have more than their fair share of legal and ethical lapses. Barofsky, a former TARP inspector general and federal prosecutor, gives his views on why this is so.

A good-news/bad-news story is the best way to describe fourth quarter 2011 results. The numbers also hold clues to where the banking business is heading.

A new survey shows that bankers are surprisingly satisfied with their institutions' examiners and exams.

Peetz — who was tasked over the weekend to help lead her alma mater Penn State out of crisis — stressed the importance of mentors, goals, self-evaluation and a positive attitude at the the Most Powerful Women in Banking awards in October.

The former Tarp special inspector general says the Obama administration has let fears of a political backlash waylay programs that designed to aid the mortgage market and homeowners.

Trepp LLC's Matthew Anderson on the disadvantages giant banks face and why midsize banks will survive.

Financial firms have plenty of grips about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but appear to be withholding legal challenges until the new agency takes specific actions they find objectionable.

Mission Capital's David Tobin is on, well, a mission. Distressed debt backed by commercial real estate is thriving, and banks should be selling their holdings.

The FDIC has proposed rules surrounding its stress tests, but with rounds of negotiation with other agencies to come, it's unclear exactly what will govern the companies under its aegis. Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Joe Adler discusses how the agency will reconcile its stress tests with those of other regulators covering banks with $10 billion or more in assets.