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The $1.9 trillion-asset bank is under pressure to provide investors more information about when it expects to resolve the numerous headaches that have arisen in the wake of its phony-accounts scandal.

Mick Mulvaney, the agency’s acting director, suggests U.S. startups — like their U.K. counterparts — may eventually be able to test products without fear of regulatory action.

Just two months ago, Comptroller Joseph Otting seemed to signal that the OCC might be open to letting national banks rent their charters to payday lenders. Now he is clarifying that it won’t happen.

An OCC initiative to get more banks to make short-term loans that rival those of payday lenders isn't enough of an enticement.

Lenders would have a lighter data-reporting burden, but they may end up deciding to collect the data anyway.

More than a dozen lawmakers wrote to the banking agencies Friday, arguing that any regulatory reforms to the Community Reinvestment Act should focus on expanding access to credit.

As the Fed continues to hone post-crisis tools, its chairman said central banks cannot take their independence for granted.

After several years of financial policy defeats, banks finally basked in a legislative victory: the first real package of regulatory relief since the crisis. But the long-term effects of that victory are still to be determined. Here is what it all means.

President plans to ease regulatory burden on the largest banks; online merchants say a Visa-Mastercard button blocks cheaper payment methods.

The remarks by the comptroller of the currency came as his agency released a new report on emerging risks in the banking industry.

Jelena McWilliams, most recently chief legal officer at Fifth Third, previously served as a Senate GOP aide and an attorney at the Federal Reserve Board.

The industry’s biggest legislative victory in a decade made it to the finish line Thursday.

It's too late for Congress to overturn the consumer bureau's regulation on short-term lending, but acting Director Mick Mulvaney will have plenty of chances to reshape it.

Montgomery was confirmed by the Senate 74-23 to serve his second stint at the FHA, where he previously was commissioner during the George W. Bush administration.

Long-awaited modifications to proprietary trading ban are to be unveiled at an open meeting on May 30.

In the continued absence of legislation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s regulator announced work on a new capital framework.

A coalition of free-market-oriented groups is calling on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch to rethink his push for a new tax on credit unions.

The agency's bulletin opens the door to banks' making more short-term loans to borrowers with lower credit scores — with few parameters beyond "sound underwriting."

The Senate bill is a huge win for the financial services industry, but there are still plenty of unresolved legislative issues of interest to banks and credit unions.

The Senate bill is a huge win for the banking industry, but there are still plenty of unresolved legislative issues of interest to financial institutions.