Opinions

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said recent profits at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should go toward helping build a new mortgage finance system.

TBTF may just be the cool "in" phrase for the wealthy libertine set, according to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."

Oak Ridge Financial Services Group in Minneapolis announced Feb. 25 that Savino "Bud" Ranallo has been named senior vice president of institutional sales.

The American Bankers Association's new spots argue that credit unions' tax exemption amounts to "indefensible and outdated special treatment."

Federal agencies have the authority and ability to raise minimum capital in a direct and meaningful way, outside of the Basel III process.

The CFPB is investigating whether college-endorsed banking products provide students with a good deal.

New law should put an end to nuisance lawsuits over missing ATM fee placards.

The qualified mortgage rule issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could be disruptive to the FHA single-family program, so the Department of Housing and Urban Development is starting the process of issuing its own QM rule.

Bankers must concentrate on achieving greater efficiencies, stop focusing on short-term goals and strike the right balance between unacceptably poor compliance practices and unattainable perfection.

Flushing Financial in Lake Success, N.Y. is now a bank. The $4.5 billion-asset company said Thursday that it had also merged Flushing Savings Bank and Flushing Commercial Bank to create a commercial bank chartered in New York.