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Michael Berman, the president and chief executive of CWCapital, received the Burton C. Wood Legislative Service Award at the Mortgage Bankers Association conference.

Grant Thornton has hired a former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. employee as a managing director in its national bank regulatory practice.

Did examiners get too cozy with the big banks they were charged with supervising? Reasonable people will disagree, but Peggy Twohig certainly isn't going to wade into the debate.

Randy Neugebauer and Maxine Waters don't have much in common politically. The Texas Republican has a lifetime score of 97 on the American Conservative Union's 100-point scorecard, while the California Democrat scores just 3.

A Kent, Wash., credit union joins peers from California and Michigan in opposing legislation that would allow non-profits to more than double their commercial lending.

While by law the Federal Reserve Board must worry about price stability and unemployment, Chairman Ben Bernanke appears to have charted a third mandate for the central bank: financial stability.

Park National (PRK) in Newark, Ohio, announced Friday that it will repay the $100 million it received from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program by issuing new debt and reducing its short-term investments.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve Board announced Friday that it is forming an outside council of academics to provide advice on its process of stress testing bank balance sheets.

The Colorado Supreme Court this week ruled that the defunct Norlarco Credit Union could not sue to recover the balance on a defaulted auto loan.

Two years after regulators gave Americans more power to manage overdrafts of their checking accounts, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reviewing bank practices to determine if the crackdown went far enough.