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Rep. Randy Neugebauer, a senior member on the House Financial Services Committee, discusses his priorities for FHA reform, despite ongoing partisan bickering.

The CFPB director received a frosty reception at the ICBA conference despite remarks designed to calm bankers' fears.

The House Budget Committee released Rep. Paul Ryan's fiscal 2014 budget plan on Tuesday. The plan renews its attacks on the 2010 Dodd-Frank reform law, including its provisions for winding down large, failing banks.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman gave an update on the agency's community bank work and said the agency is on target to reach a statutory minimum for insurance reserves.

In a March 12 letter, Sen. Bob Corker, a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, raised concerns about whether the Financial Stability Oversight Council would wind down a healthy institution due to concerns regarding whether the bank is "too big to fail."

A region-wide department chain filed suit against Visa challenging the payment card industry standards under which the merchant was fined $13 million for a 2010 data breach.

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to clarify his admission last week about whether some financial institutions are too big to prosecute.

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' hearing into the "London Whale" mess at JPMorgan Chase will include a number of bank and OCC officials. Notably absent will be JPM CEO Jaime Dimon.

Global money transfer company Xoom is launching Pay Only When Received (POWR), a model through which the company does not withdraw money from a sender's bank account until the funds reach the recipient.

Former JPMorgan Chase chief investment officer Ina Drew will testify March 15 at a Senate hearing into her department's botched derivatives bet and record trading loss.