Opinions

The House Oversight Committee, which earlier this year admonished the Department of Justice over its tactics for combating fraud in the payments system, has turned its focus to the role of the Federal Trade Commission in the ongoing crackdown.

The life insurance giant became the second firm to seek an opportunity to contest its designation as "systemic" by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

The House Oversight Committee has turned its focus from the Justice Department's Operation Choke Point to FTC investigations that target payment processing firms.

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency officially named Kathy Murphy as the senior deputy comptroller for management and chief financial officer on Friday.

It's time for the Federal Housing Finance Agency to make good on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's funding obligations to two affordable housing programs.

A federal judge has dismissed an FDIC lawsuit against directors and officers of a failed North Carolina bank. The ruling has big implications for future cases that seek to hold senior bank management accountable for financial crisis-era failures.

A trade group for payment processors is accusing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. of improperly pressuring banks to cut ties with merchants in the pornography business.

FHA commissioner Galante initiated the handbook rewrite to provide more detail and certainty for lenders.

The Supreme Court said Thursday it would hear a case related to the use of "disparate impact" theory to pursue entities for unintentional discrimination, a move that could have significant ramifications for banks.

Two American Indian tribes so far have failed to prove that New York's top banking regulator exceeded his authority in cracking down on out-of-state payday lenders last year, an appeals court panel ruled this week.