Opinions

Donna Goodrich, new chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, promises to represent banks of all sizes — not just bigger ones like BB&T — and says FHLBs could be pivotal to housing reform.

Enterprise Financial in St. Louis, Mo., has fully exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Federal Reserve Board has lifted a memorandum of understanding against First M&F (FMFC) in Kosciusko, Miss.

The CFPB released its long-awaited final rule laying out how lenders must ensure borrowers have the ability to repay a loan, including creating a carve-out for qualified mortgages.

Securities regulators have charged three executives of a failed bank in Virginia with deceiving investors about the health of its loan portfolio at the apex of the financial crisis.

White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew, who is widely expected to be nominated as Treasury secretary, is something of an unknown quantity to the financial industry.

Foreign banks operating within the U.S. will be penalized despite a change made by regulators to provide more time to comply with pending swap restrictions.

The Fed's foreign bank regulation proposal may make sense, but it appears to signal that global standards are giving way to an every-country-for-itself approach.

A neighborhood association wants regulators to stop the company and CEO John Kanas from expanding in New York.

Giving regulators more levers to pull and buttons to push with respect to the financial system only creates a false sense of security. The new regulatory powers come with few meaningful accountability checks.