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Morgan Drexen, a debt-relief provider, is being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for false marketing a month after the same company filed suit against the agency.

Policymakers and law enforcement should work with the Bitcoin community to realize the potential benefits of censorship-resistant money—and to develop tools and techniques to address the technology’s potential misuse.

With a wave of mergers and acquisitions inevitable, a new set of regulatory hurdles have evolved for large financial entities and community banks alike.

The former Fed vice chair is a logical alternative to Janet Yellen and Larry Summers. He's got the central bank and industry experience, plus his confirmation would make history.

The meaning of the term "underbanked" has evolved considerably over the last 30 years, and its definition today makes little sense.

In a sit-down interview with American Banker, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray discussed his Senate confirmation, qualified mortgages, and the future challenges that the agency may face.

Basel's barely noticed, but important paper on how to measure banks' equity-investments-in-funds risk signals its strong concern with how banks are interconnected to shadow financial firms.

President Obama held a meeting Monday with financial regulators to discuss the implementation of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

Executives at Evolve Bank & Trust invest in technology to handle commissions and other accounting for mortgages due to stiffer regulatory requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act.

U.S. regulators have only marginally improved upon the European version of Basel III.