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Rather than fueling uncertainty, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be devising strategies that facilitate clearer policies that bring more certainty to lending markets.

For a country that relies on the energy and drive of immigrants to the extent that the U.S. does, it's surprisingly hard for them to get bank accounts. It's time to reassess what we mean by money-laundering risks.

A recent white paper from former Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel Tarullo suggests that the stress testing regime should be decoupled from bank capital requirements. But if stress testing isn't an effective means of assigning minimum regulatory capital levels, what is?

Integrating artificial intelligence into banking operations needs to be done with a clear business purpose in mind, and the articulation of that purpose needs to come straight from the top of the organization.

Traditional financial institutions have much to gain from collaboration with digital asset natives — and vice versa. It's time to realize that potential.

A former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau senior counsel argues that the agency needs to renew its focus on institution-building, in order to create a stable foundation on which the financial services industry, as well as its own employees, can rely.

Effective coaches understand that the same message, delivered at different points in an employee's career, can resonate in new ways as they gain insight and experience.

A reader takes issue with a column by the agency's former director in which she criticized its analysis of the consumer credit card market.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's overly broad expansion of the Dealer Rule is only the latest example of the agency's yearslong effort to stifle innovation in a vibrant and growing industry.

Regulators are inherently cautious, but they must not allow concerns about risk to blind them to the enormous opportunities artificial intelligence presents for the financial well-being of Americans.