The Government Accountability Office determined that three Obama-era letters from the central bank related to large-bank supervision should have been submitted for congressional review.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.

Complaints that banks, credit unions and nonbanks compete on an uneven playing field should be heard, just as community banks must take seriously the threats from high-tech rivals, says Julie Stackhouse, a retiring supervision official at the St. Louis Fed.

The goal is to get a better understanding of past incidents, thereby arming the Fed to improve its response as more companies implement faster payments.

Count Citizens Financial’s Bruce Van Saun among those who think interest rate cuts could halt by mid-2020. The key, he says, is to focus on delivering services customers are willing to pay fees for and to skillfully reprice deposits until then.

The two agencies requested comment on the scorecard regulators use to assess a bank's overall health as some question whether ratings are consistently applied.

A regulatory proposal to ease the initial margin buffer on certain derivatives trading could be harmful to the economy.

As some of Facebook's partners pull out of the Libra cyrptocurrency project, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., encouraged a company located in his state to remain involved.

The companies say they're working hard to complete their deal this year — including spending millions on retention payments and other items — but there's no guarantee how quickly regulators will make their decisions.

The four prudential agencies, which will enforce the new credit loss methodology developed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, said they want to promote consistency.

With policymakers casting doubt on Facebook's cryptocurrency and some of the social media giant's partners pulling out, a Federal Reserve governor continued the drumbeat of criticism.

The three federal bank regulators often say they want to work together to reform the Community Reinvestment Act. But once again, a senior official has raised the possibility the agencies will move separately.

Executives sent a letter to the federal banking regulators last month expressing concern that an alternative to the London interbank offered rate could limit credit availability.

At a national level, loan growth has been on the decline for months and could still get worse. Here's how some credit unions are tackling the issue.

Perhaps the biggest test that Charles Scharf will face when he starts next week will be how to control expenses while still trying to make the necessary investments in risk management to satisfy regulators.

The FedNow real-time payments settlement network from the Federal Reserve could launch prior to its estimated 2024 time frame, but a lot of pieces have to fall into place to make that happen.

JPMorgan Chase had the cash and willingness to calm short-term funding markets when they went haywire in mid-September, but the banking giant said regulations held it back.

Banks need to ditch their "wait and see" approach to making real-time payments available to their customers says Vinay Prabhakar, Volante’s vice president of product marketing.

The Federal Reserve said it will begin buying $60 billion of Treasury bills per month to improve its control over the benchmark interest rate it uses to guide monetary policy after turmoil rocked money markets in September.

Large banks will have less onerous capital rules and stress test requirements; the president’s main lender said it has other returns, but not the president’s.