Opinions

Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr appears to be among the majority of monetary policymakers who foresee at least one more rate hike before the end of the year.

U.S. regulators have made it clear that banks have the discretion to explain account closures, short of disclosing the existence of a suspicious activity report filing. They should make it mandatory.

If the Federal Reserve really wants to control inflation, it first needs to control people's expectations.

The federal banking regulator issued conditional approvals for national trust bank charters for Bastion Platforms, Agora and Catena Labs on the same day.

The preliminary readout from Starling Trust Sciences' report on the Silicon Valley Bank failure is an assessment of the conclusions from three previous government reviews of the episode.

A forthcoming rule from Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will spell out banks' obligations to identify the true identities and beneficial ownership of its clients, even as the administration eliminated most U.S. beneficial ownership reporting.

The "near-prime" lending fintech Avant is seeking to become a full-service bank by filing for a national de novo bank charter with federal regulators.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman Friday highlighted a pair of new provisions to the final stress test framework that arose from public commentary submitted to the agency last year.

Bankers are largely downplaying the impact of the Federal Reserve's interest rate increase. Some said this week that the quarter-point hike could be good for near-term profitability.

A pair of proposals issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Thursday would create new merger processing timelines and extend national-bank preemption to certain out-of-state, state chartered bank activities.