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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.

Detractors are suddenly hopeful that the controversial accounting standard could be delayed or altered after FSOC's longer-than-expected closed session on the issue.

FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams questioned whether regulators and banks are fully capturing the emerging risks of a new shadow banking system.

The central bank's top regulator said public comments about the new tool, used to gauge capital strength during stress tests, will likely result in changes before it is adopted.

The Bank Policy Institute said the Current Expected Credit Loss model is a “sea change” from how banks have traditionally set aside reserves.

The administration says it wants to focus on risky activities as opposed to individual nonbank firms. But there are big questions with that.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council announced Wednesday that it was rescinding the SIFI label for Prudential, a culmination of almost a decade of fierce debate about how regulators should address the risk of nonbank financial firms.

Dodd-Frank authorized the council to designate specific nonbanks for tougher supervision, but the Trump administration has signaled support for "activities-based" designations.

The interagency council voted in favor of the bank's application to remove its designation, though the practical effect of the decision is muted by the regulatory relief law passed this spring.

The Dodd-Frank Act requires that one of the five nonvoting members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council be a state banking supervisor.

As a House staffer, Dino Falaschetti tried to repeal Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. He should not be put in charge of it.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors says state and federal regulatory coordination on third-party technology service provider exams eliminates duplication