Opinions

The Federal Reserve's rate hikes so far are just "catching up," the JPMorgan chairman and CEO says. Dimon predicts inflation will be at 4% early next year and "won't be coming down for a whole bunch of reasons."

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said today's high mortgage rates are dissuading some would-be sellers from putting their homes on the market, further limiting lending opportunities in an environment already constrained by low inventory

A recent report by the Office of the Inspector General for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. suggests that while the FDIC's strategic plan for economic inclusion is satisfactory, it could be improved by formalizing procedures, self-evaluations and gathering more input from banks.

Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said most small businesses will need to report information about their beneficial owners at the start of next year; certain financial and government entities are exempt because of their preexisting regulatory requirements.

Bancrédito International Bank and Trust Corp. "willfully violated" the Bank Secrecy Act, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The penalty was the first under a two-year-old federal rule aimed at closing gaps in anti-money-laundering enforcement.

Any comprehensive overhaul of the Federal Home Loan Bank System will have to navigate a dense thicket of countervailing regulatory and stakeholder priorities.

The securities have been hard to sell in part because the bonds will probably pay below-market coupons for years.

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau defended the agency and its mortgage rules in particular on the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency also is offering more opportunities for public dialogue as stakeholders debate how fast the process should move forward.

Brokered deposits had nothing to do with this year's bank failures, and regulators shouldn't pretend otherwise.