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With the future of payday lending in flux, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has the ability to help provide consumers with a better credit option.

Bradley Linskens, the former top examiner of Wells Fargo at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, sued the agency Tuesday over records requests he had made related to his removal earlier this year.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to face tough questions on the OCC, Glass-Steagall and housing finance reform when he testifies on Thursday.

The deposit insurer has stayed out of the debate over how to regulate the online lending industry. But that may be about to change.

The company also said it believes there are no regulatory obstacles that will derail its planned acquisition of Astoria Financial.

New York’s banking regulator on Friday filed its own individual lawsuit against the OCC's fintech charter, asking the courts to block it.

The Federal Reserve is asking Sterling to address deficiencies tied to its collection, verification and reporting of CRA data from 2014 to 2016.

Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are raising concerns that a move by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to appoint Keith Noreika as acting comptroller was done to circumvent Senate vetting.

There are barriers to possible efforts by acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika to act unilaterally to change the Volcker Rule.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors announced a raft of initiatives on Wednesday designed to make the state licensing system more attractive to fintech companies.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s fintech charter could provide a workaround to a Dodd-Frank Act provision that slashed preemption for operating subsidiaries.

The top executives at Guaranty Bank said that, after years of struggles, the $1 billion-asset bank was a month or two away from raising the capital it needed to survive.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika should take some time to assess whether the agency’s fintech charter is developing in a way that best serves the public.

As Keith Noreika takes over as acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday, he faces a daunting challenge: a precipitous drop in morale at the agency.

The Trump administration’s formal ouster of Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry has set in motion a sea change atop financial regulatory agencies that will likely unfold slowly over the next year.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, came out swinging Wednesday after the Treasury Department confirmed it would select banking attorney Keith Noreika as the interim head of the OCC.

More than 100 days into Trump’s presidency, financial regulators still lack key appointments. Here's why that matters.

President Trump is likely to replace Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry with an acting comptroller as soon as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump is likely to replace Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry with an acting comptroller as soon as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.

American Banker's Rob Blackwell and Marc Hochstein discuss the pushback from state regulators and consumer advocates against the OCC's proposed charter; Chris Skinner and Jim Marous hold forth on fintech.