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The Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate warned the Treasury secretary not to use the incident as a rationale for weakening regulations.

The Treasury secretary repeated his concerns about the social media giant's proposed cryptocurrency, one day before Mark Zuckerberg is expected to face tough questioning from House lawmakers.

With financial institutions relying more and more on cloud computing services, Washington is increasingly focused on the concentration of industry data in the big three technology giants.

Focusing regulatory reforms on risk-based activities is a more effective approach to weeding out potential systemic threats.

A recent proposal by the Financial Stability Oversight Council to focus less on certain nonbank firms and more on risk activities would create unintended economic harm.

There is bipartisan agreement in the Senate that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "too big to fail," but some lawmakers are skeptical that a SIFI designation is appropriate.

Options include legislation to study the risk of leveraged loans, more aggressive action by the Financial Stability Oversight Council and additional capital buffers. Policymakers may also choose to do nothing.

Although higher corporate debt could hurt the economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell argued changes made since the last crisis will guard against a meltdown.

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee says he wants answers from the Financial Stability Oversight Council on efforts to address corporate debt risks.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council is shifting away from designating specific nonbanks and moving toward identifying activities that threaten the whole system. But some say that approach just weakens the council.

At first the Financial Stability Oversight Council wanted to target individual nonbanks that pose a risk to the economy. Now it wants to target activities rather than firms. Is that a good idea or a political ploy?

The Financial Stability Oversight Council should adopt measures that help vulnerable communities.

A bipartisan group of senators is proposing legislation to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to weigh alternatives before putting a large, complex nonbank under Federal Reserve supervision.

The 2020 budget would add the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and FSOC to congressional appropriations, charge lenders for FHA upgrades and require universities to have skin in the game on student loans.

The revisions would emphasize activities-based regulation over labeling individual firms as systemically risky.

The interagency panel formed to head off approaching systemic risks must figure out its next move after having undone designations of nonbank firms.

The banking agencies would benefit from running simulations designed to ensure they’re ready to handle the next crisis.

A no-deal Brexit could throw the international swaps market into disarray in a way that could be difficult to predict, and could have dire consequences for U.S. banks and the world economy.

The post-Dodd-Frank era is one of rightsizing and tailoring rules, but a key bloc of the regulatory brain trust believes the U.S. still lacks mechanisms that could prove helpful in a crisis.

The Dodd-Frank Act gave the central bank authority to set capital requirements for insurance companies that own a federally insured bank, as well as those determined to be systemically important.