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More than 20,000 consumers have seen their bank accounts abruptly terminated in recent months. Experts believe financial institutions are responding to the Trump administration's restrictionist immigration policies.

Proposed rules for implementing the GENIUS Act demand close examination. While regulators' intentions are admirable, some of their suggestions threaten to create the very problems they are meant to resolve.

Insurance companies are increasingly shifting their assets into offshore vehicles, where they are being used for…what exactly? We don't know, and that's the problem.

As fintech firms rush to take advantage of a new regulatory attitude toward bank charter applications, their leaders are about to step into a very new compliance environment. They need to understand what they're getting themselves into.

The Federal Reserve's new chair wants to change the way the central bank communicates with markets and the public. What those changes ultimately amount to could represent a major shift in an agency that has made transparency a guiding light for decades.

William Isaac led the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. through the banking and thrift crises of the 1980s and was a frequent commentator on bank regulation after his time in public service.

The longtime Federal Reserve chair served under four presidents and presided over the deregulatory and pro-market push of the 1990s and early 2000s that set the stage for the 2008 mortgage crisis.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals halted the Trump administration's attempt to fire nearly two-thirds of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's workforce, upholding a March 2025 injunction.

Chair Travis Hill said the Silicon Valley Bank failure showed banks can't always sell securities fast enough to cover deposit outflows, but acknowledged the "stigma problem" with discount window borrowing remains unsolved.

A potential deletion from a long-standing regulatory definition has banks questioning how to classify vast swaths of their lending books.