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The Senate will hold a vote to confirm Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sometime next week.

A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center released Tuesday said that "single point of entry" resolutions, a strategy favored by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., are a viable option to solve the "too big to fail" problem.

Top Federal Reserve Board officials, including Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, believe it is best to carry out the current reform process to solve the "too big to fail" issue, but are ready to significantly increase capital standards if the problem persists.

The banking industry must create sustainable mortgage products that will work for responsible families of modest means. We also need a proactive homeownership policy from the federal government.

The heart of the issue is not who holds what titles, but whether a company’s governance processes are functioning as they should.

A modified version of Ed DeMarco’s securities-based model for housing finance reform could promote an active market for risk-sharing arrangements and further reduce systemic risk by distributing credit risk broadly.

The Federal Reserve Board said that eighteen of the largest U.S. bank holding companies will release partial results of their midyear stress tests to regulators on July 5.

The top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Mike Crapo, is requesting more information about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data collection practices, claiming that the agency has been "evasive."

Accept the limitations of quantification exercises. Management should focus on identifying and mitigating risks that alone or in combination could cause a bank to fail.

The central bank is too big, too leveraged, extremely short-funded and a frequent creator through its interest rate and money-printing actions of gigantic systemic risk.