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Barely a handful of lenders are refinancing student loans, despite a prolonged period of low interest rates and the surging debt burden for college graduates.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s watchdog is urging stronger coordination between separate agency divisions among its recommendations for improving the implementation of Dodd-Frank Act resolution powers.

The former president and chief executive of Bank of Choice in Greeley, Colo., will pay $65,000 to investors to settle charges he violated registration and anti-fraud provisions of the Colorado Securities Act.

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Daniel Tarullo on Friday floated three ways policymakers could strengthen a set of proposed market-wide reforms for securities financing transactions.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging regulators to strengthen their supplemental leverage ratio in order to help eliminate concerns over "too big to fail."

Retired Congressman Barney Frank, one of the architects of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, called Friday for both stringent standards and lenient enforcement around the law's much-watched Volcker rule.

Tougher restrictions on job duties, zero tolerance from senior management and compensation structured around long-term incentives, among other things, will prevent the wrong people ending up in banking for the wrong reasons.

The House Financial Services chairman mocked his height and the partisan nature of the housing finance debate, while referencing everything from football great Johnny Manziel to McDonald's hamburgers.

Pacific City Financial (PFCF) in Los Angeles redeemed more than half the preferred stock it issued to the Treasury Department under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The two lenders are the largest issuers of deferred-interest credit cards and would be most affected by a CFPB crackdown on the product, a new report suggests.