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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen defended post-crisis reforms but allowed that further adjustments may be necessary to reduce adverse effects on small businesses and subprime borrowers.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika is using his short time in office to open a debate about the separation of banking and commerce, which he says is anti-competitive, stifles diversification and may limit regulators' options in times of crisis.

Lenders will not have to report data on open-ended home equity lines of credit in 2018 or 2019 if they originated fewer than 500 HELOCs the preceding year, the bureau said.

With the deadline for a federal-debt-limit renewal nearly a month away, bankers are dreading the prospect of higher funding costs, strained liquidity, weaker commercial loan demand and other ramifications if Washington does not act.

The credit card issuer paid $95 million to settle charges it offered inferior terms to customers in American territories; Mitsubishi UFJ wants to become a top 10 U.S. bank.

American Express charged higher interest rates and annual fees to cardholders in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories than in the U.S., the CFPB said Wednesday.

The National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions defended the credit union tax exemption and called for other financial reforms during a meeting Tuesday with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Prodigy Finance, a London-based graduate student lender, gets $240 million in new funding round; Bitcoin Cash value soars.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is facing a leadership crisis as top jobs go unfilled, leaving key decisions unresolved.

Regulators reached a $183.5 million deal Thursday to get debt relief to 41,000 students of the bankrupt Corinthian Colleges.

Payment processors and banks are being called on to cut off funds to white supremacist groups, but there are practical and legal limits to what firms can do.

Basel Institute says enforcement is the problem; wealth adviser says bank steered clients away from her to white colleagues and blocked her promotion.

The CEO of JPMorgan Chase served on President Trump's strategic and policy forum, one of two councils that are now being dissolved, and had drawn criticism for sticking with it.

JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon joined U.S. corporate leaders in denouncing racial intolerance as the pressure heats up on them to challenge President Trump on social and other policy matters. However, Dimon remains on a key presidential advisory group.

Warren Buffett’s firm buys big stake in retail credit card issuer while dumping shares in its former parent, GE; long-awaited update speeds transactions in the digital currency network.

Synchrony completed its spinoff in 2015 from General Electric Co., a company that Warren Buffett helped prop up during the financial crisis.

Payday lenders and arbitration supporters are claiming the CFPB has met more often with consumer groups than industry, laying the groundwork for likely lawsuits on key rules.

The $2.6 trillion-asset bank's recent commitment to digital lending augurs the development of a two-tier market for borrowers who want fast access to cash.

Democrats sent a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Tex., asking that he investigate potential financial ties between President Trump and Russia.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter to 16 big banks asking them if they support a GOP effort to overturn the CFPB arbitration rule.