Opinions

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry has promoted the agency's key bank mediator, Ombudsman Larry Hattix, into a newly created role as Senior Deputy Comptroller for Enterprise Governance.

The Federal Housing Administration has become the latest flash point in the battle over government's role in housing finance. American Banker editors discuss.

Taken to the extreme, new guidance from the Federal Reserve will require boards to evolve into something close to shadow management.

A group of House Democrats is urging President Barack Obama to nominate a permanent director for the Federal Housing Finance Agency to replace an acting chief they say is standing in the way of aid for struggling borrowers.

The Treasury Department has decided to cancel the auction of Coastal Banking Company's Troubled Asset Relief Program shares after the bank received approval to pay dividends.

Many companies are idling while the U.S. considers its options for handling the migration to chip cards from magnetic-stripe cards. Even a company based in the UK finds itself stuck.

Richmond Fed President Jeff Lacker has a much different approach to ending "too big to fail" than his central bank colleagues, including making it impossible for regulators to unwind a failing institution.

Jeremiah Norton, a board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said Wednesday that regulators should consider proposing a stronger leverage ratio for banks to help protect the financial system.

Visa's quarterly earnings increased by 26% from a year earlier, and its financial outlook for 2013 has also brightened, the company said Feb. 6.

Federal Reserve Gov. Elizabeth Duke urged community bankers on Tuesday to continue lending despite challenges created by compliance with a host of new Dodd-Frank regulations.