Opinions

Congress is afraid to tackle this complicated and contentious issue, but the market badly needs positive signals from our lawmakers that provide certainty about the future of housing finance.

The oft-mischaracterized HUD disparate impact rule will discourage any race-based decision making and minimize lawsuits. Why would any mortgage lender want to continue a practice with a discriminatory effect but no business objective?

While the U.S. inches toward adoption of the EMV chip-card standard, some card makers and issuers are finding they need to move faster than others.

The attorneys general of eight states are requesting to join a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson and Sen. Mike Crapo, the top panel republican, wrote to regulators on Wednesday urging them to weigh concerns by community bankers on pending Basel III capital and liquidity rules.

Citizens First (CZFC) in Bowling Green, Ky., is nearly two-thirds of the way to exiting the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., the world’s biggest payment networks, won dismissal of a price- fixing lawsuit brought by a group representing operators of automated teller machines.

At a press conference protesting Republicans' refusal to confirm a director of the CFPB, Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats said they have no intention of making structural changes to the agency in order to meet GOP demands.

Republican lawmakers sharply questioned Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew on Wednesday, asking him to detail his role at Citigroup in the lead-up to the financial crisis and his views on a range of banking issues.

The Federal Trade Commission's annual letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlines Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases pursued in the past year.