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Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein backed Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. efforts, mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act, to create a rule for orderly closures of big firms.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has lost more than a dozen senior officials in recent months, raising concerns whether the agency will be able to maintain the aggressive pace set during its nearly two years of existence.

Federal regulators must not rely on standard measures of differences between outcome rates without considering the way those measures change simply because the frequency of an outcome changes.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a training guide titled "Money Smart for Older Adults" to help banks, law enforcement and advocates of senior citizens deliver tips to older adults on preventing exploitation.

Despite opposition by the White House and Democrats, the House panel passed several derivatives bills that would modify provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

Bankers and regulators may need to study the barriers of entry into banking just as seriously as the NFL and Major League Baseball consider new franchises for football and baseball.

Regulators can use the power of Big Data mining and pattern-matching algorithms to seek out triggers of contagion across an interconnected financial system.

In addition to addressing the risks that caused the last crisis, the Financial Stability Oversight Council should be comparing notes about cyber threats with the national security agencies.

The nation's seven largest banks have earned an extension to push out their swap activities as required by the Dodd-Frank reform law by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Law professor Saule T. Omarova is suggesting regulators require pre-market approval for complex financial instruments like derivatives to curb systemic risk in global markets. How effective would such a program be?