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Bank regulators on Thursday sent banks revised instructions on managinge potential risks from leveraged lending.

Standard Chartered has been forced to retract comments by its chairman that the U.K. bank's laundering of hundreds of billions of dollars on behalf of Iran was inadvertent.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's annual report to Congress outlined key developments related to the department taking over primary collection agency enforcement duties from the Federal Trade Commission.

Freddie Mac and its regulator must do more to ensure loan servicers properly respond to complaints over handling of mortgages held or guaranteed by the U.S.-owned company, according to a government watchdog's audit report.

To settle a New York state probe of alleged collusion and price gouging by banks and insurers, the country's largest force-placed insurance company will lower its rates and cease making payments to banks.

A judge in New Jersey limited Spencer Savings Bank's ability to control the process for director nominations.

Money was never meant to be a method of supranational identity tracking. Its use in that way could signal law enforcement desperation. When all other tactics fail, surveil the finances.

In a little-noticed speech last month, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray laid out a new, unified way of thinking about several of the hot-button issues the agency is currently tackling.

Lawmakers and banking regulators are showing irrational exuberance, says risk management expert and veteran banker Richard J. Parsons.

Quiet financial markets permit greater leverage and risk taking, helping lower volatility further — until a large shock arrives. Then, hold on to your hats… Plus: Fed raises bar on stress tests; why the exercise is an opportunity for banks.