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Mark Paoletta, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's chief legal officer, has taken over as the agency's acting director. Russell Vought's term ended Aug. 1.

The Fed chair attributed recent rising bond yields to a strong economy. However, investors are probably also responding to other factors, including Warsh's own comments about potential changes to inflation measures.

Fincen's Andrea Gacki will join Citi as global head of sanctions, BBVA promoted Gonzalo Rodríguez to chief financial officer, HDFC Bank penalized three senior officials for their role in a controversial deposit arrangement, and more in this week's banking news roundup.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint notice of proposed rulemaking for the Community Reinvestment Act that would tailor requirements for smaller institutions and monitor which groups receive community development grants.

The Federal Reserve is mulling changes to its Regulation O that would allow executives, board members and major shareholders to borrow more from their own banks.

In a new paradigm of anti-money-laundering compliance, success increasingly depends not on obtaining information faster, but on recognizing when machine-generated intelligence should not be trusted.

The central bank banned two former bankers from the industry for misappropriating funds from elderly customers.

Digital currency can be tracked and if stolen "burned," then reminted and given back to its rightful owners. That could be a powerful anti-fraud tool.

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh acknowledged that his limited guidance might have been a factor in rising market rates, but said whatever increased volatility can be attributed to the changes is more than offset by the benefit of a more nimble central bank.

A 76-year-old PNC customer lost almost $400,000 to a scam involving gold coins and a fake bill for Norton Antivirus protection. Can the bank be held accountable for failing to help him?