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Readers react to a regulator's promise to reduce regulation that hinders innovation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to impose heavier taxes on lobbying groups, Freddie Mac's exploration into AI and more.

The central bank will consider rules to create a tiered structure for supervising banks with over $100 billion of assets and to ease resolution plan requirements.

The new regulation will allow more flexibility for board directors and senior managers to serve at multiple institutions.

Banks need to understand that examiners' job is to call it like they see it.

The three federal banking agencies moved to raise the threshold for residential transactions that require an appraisal from $250,000 to $400,000.

All of the GOP members on the House Financial Services Committee called on the regulator to consider "administrative decisions" to offset the impact of the 2015 decision.

Fintechs that simply offer cosmetic upgrades to the cumbersome American banking system won't survive.

The revised trading rule is seen as a credit negative for the banking industry.

A federal judge blocked state regulators from suing the agency over its new charter, but it’s still unclear whether fintechs would even apply.

Fintechs that simply offer cosmetic upgrades to the cumbersome American banking system won't survive.

Regulators are letting banks choose from among four security frameworks, but some observers are urging a more prescriptive approach.

A federal judge blocked state regulators from suing the agency over its new charter, but it’s still unclear whether fintechs would even apply.

Native American tribal leaders are hoping foreign banks might step in to provide added assistance if regulators act on a plan leaders have put forward to designate Indian country as its own area under the Community Reinvestment Act.

The Cincinnati bank applied in May to convert its Ohio state charter amid an expansion into Texas and Colorado and the completion of its merger with MB Financial.

With no fintech applicant officially seeking the agency’s specialized charter, Judge Dabney Friedrich said claims by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors still were not ripe.

An agency with a mission to protect consumers deserves to have a role in approving M&A deals.

Seeking to expand financial services access, tribal officials and some firms want regulators to award Community Reinvestment Act credit to any bank that funds projects in Native American communities.

The agencies handed banks a significant victory when they finalized revisions to the Dodd-Frank proprietary trading ban, but officials also plan to re-propose changes to the “covered funds” section of the rule.

Readers react to regulators revamping the Volcker Rule and the U.S. Postal Service getting into banking, criticize HUD's plan to make it harder for consumers to allege discrimination and more.

After two regulatory agencies adopted final revisions to the rule, Dodd-Frank defenders expressed concern that the amendments to the proprietary trading ban undermined the post-crisis statute.