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Brandon Milhorn, the new CEO of the Conference of State Banking Supervisors, used the platform offered by his first major speech to sound an alarm against one-size-fits-all solutions emanating from Washington. "The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of federal regulatory uniformity," Milhorn argued.

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network fined a New York credit union employee $100,000 Wednesday in connection with a scheme to launder $1 billion using armored trucks and the credit union's Fed master account.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined City National Bank $65 million for a litany of risk management problems, including inadequate management of third-party risks and fraud risk management.

The central bank massively increased the money supply during the pandemic. We paid the price with high interest rates throttling the real estate industry.

Banks and Congressmen alike see U.S. regulators' version of Basel III as overly stringent for the securitization market.

The CFPB is well within its authority to make these changes, which will increase the availability of credit to many Americans.

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the financial services industry should take the opportunity to step up for survivors.

A common concern in housing finance reactions has been the lack of accommodation for strategies routinely used to manage credit, rate and liquidity exposures.

The leader of the Financial Services Forum takes issue with a recent BankThink article that challenged the industry's claims about proposed rules for implementing the Basel endgame capital requirements.

The Federal Reserve and New York State Department of Financial Services fined the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for violations related to a lack of internal controls for confidential supervisory information and anti-money-laundering compliance failures.