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A regulatory plan to create new restrictions on banks’ executive compensation practices appears dead — but changes since the financial crisis may have made the proposal largely obsolete anyway.
July 21 -
Now that the Federal Reserve has raised short-term rates four times in the past 18 months, all eyes are on deposit costs as banks seek to keep pricing low and fatten margins. But that effort is complicated by the fact that banks must prepare for the unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet and consumers' rapid adoption of mobile deposits.
July 21 -
An influential task force established by the central bank envisions a future in which the U.S. has multiple real-time payment systems, and in a new report it lays out a series of actions that will be necessary to stitch them together.
July 20 -
Regional banks are hoping that recent comments by Fed Chair Janet Yellen can add fuel to their efforts to replace the $50 billion asset threshold for systemically important banks with a regulatory indicator test.
July 20 -
House Republicans are ramping up their criticism of the Fed for making interest payments to member banks on excess reserves, and may have identified a way to counter claims that the payments are critical to monetary policy.
July 19 -
Readers slam credit unions’ ever-inclusive membership criteria, weigh in on the OCC’s proposed fintech charter, encourage a rewrite of the CRA, and more.
July 14 -
The industry and GOP lawmakers face short time frames and other challenges in trying to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's arbitration rule.
July 13 -
A community bank gets taken to task by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Tennis player Andy Murray makes his mom — and lots of other women — proud at Wimbledon. Also, the Bank of England's Charlotte Hogg and Morgan Stanley's Naureen Hassan.
July 13 -
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank is prepared to issue further enforcement actions against Wells Fargo for its account scandal if “appropriate.”
July 13 -
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday defended policies related to commercial banks in the face of GOP criticism while also pinpointing areas where the Fed is open to regulatory easing.
July 12 -
Trump’s nominee for head of bank supervision at the Fed may tackle Volcker Rule revision; rising home prices and improved job market give borrowers more options as lines of credit reset.
July 12 -
The administration and regulators are considering exempting certain asset classes from the leverage ratio, but opponents say going down that road is a mistake.
July 11 -
The administration and regulators are considering exempting certain asset classes from the leverage ratio, but opponents say going down that road is a mistake.
July 11 -
Agency rule would make it easier to sue banks, but Congressional Republicans likely to fight it; Trump nominates Randal Quarles as Fed’s vice chair for supervision.
July 11 -
President Trump will nominate Randal Quarles as the Federal Reserve's vice chairman of supervision, the top bank regulatory post at the central bank, according to an announcement by the White House late Monday.
July 10 -
Tucked away in the Treasury Department’s regulatory reform report released last month was a nascent effort to reform the way regulators implement the Community Reinvestment Act.
July 10 -
Federal Reserve Board Gov. Jerome Powell stopped short of endorsing any single housing finance reform plan, but called on lawmakers to resolve what he described as the biggest unfinished business of the crisis.
July 6 -
Mark Van Der Weide will become the Federal Reserve Board's general counsel later this summer, succeeding Scott Alvarez.
July 6 -
Mobile payments, online transactions and electronic billing are all on the rise, according to new analysis from the Federal Reserve.
July 6 -
American card processor has a deal for its British counterpart; after passing Fed tests, banks still stressed by weak lending, low interest rates.
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