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The event, hosted by the Federalist Society, was largely designed to focus on the CFPB. But former BB&T CEO John Allison used his time to openly argue for ending, or limiting, the Fed.

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WASHINGTON — State regulators in Georgia closed the $125 million-asset Hometown Community Bank in Braselton late Friday, stretching the industry's failure toll this year to 50.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement actions and remittance rule were hot topics at a panel with agency official Michael Gordon.

To offer credit as a means of promoting savings is a bit like a hospital encouraging people to get sick so they can be healed.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will delay the effective date of new disclosures about escrow accounts and other items as the agency crafts a broader overhaul of mortgage forms.

The Clearing House has named the top executives of two of the nation’s biggest banks to lead its supervisory board in the coming year.

New York's Attorney General has issued a letter demanding that Wells Fargo (WFC) resume processing mortgage modification requests for borrowers in states hit by Hurricane Sandy.

An effort to overhaul commercial bankruptcy laws is in its early stages, and creditors in the syndicated loan market sense a threat to some of their most important tools for guarding collateral.

The Lansing, Mich., company has a confirmation hearing on Dec. 4. A delay could prove costly to Capitol's survival; the state regulator has threatened to seize the company's bank in New Mexico on Dec. 20.