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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there have been "no decisions" on the controversial capital reform plan, but banks and others who have criticized the proposal are eager for an indication about what's next.

Thousands of consumers had to wait more than 90 days for funds after their accounts were suddenly closed, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft proposal would set fees at $14. With fee income under attack from many sides, bankers say they would have to further restrict credit.

In a surprise move, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Housing Finance Agency proposed a long-awaited rule to curb certain incentive-based pay arrangements for bank executives.

A veteran Canadian bank analyst says Toronto-Dominion Bank's role in an alleged money-laundering scheme has made the "worst-case scenario" more likely — a huge fine for the lender and years of restrictions on its U.S. growth.

Big national retailers will capture all the financial benefits from proposed reductions in swipe fees, while consumers will be left with fewer benefits programs and less secure transactions.

The efforts, which respond to President Biden's October executive order on AI, aim to improve synthetic content detection and improve the trustworthiness of AI models.

On both sides of the Atlantic, regulators have failed to live up to their promises about how they would approach bank failures. Until they do, the industry operates in legal limbo.

Toronto-Dominion failed to submit suspicious-transaction reports in cases where it was reasonable to suspect the transfers were tied to money laundering or terrorist financing, along with other violations, according to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.

What's the point of regulatory capital rules that ignore demonstrated problems, like unrealized losses? We need to rethink what banks' disclose to investors and regulators.