Opinions

Clayton, as US attorney for the Southern District of New York, heads the nation's most prominent federal prosecutors' office.

Federal prosecutors arrested and charged Mahender Makhijani, 44, with orchestrating a $100 million bank fraud against Western Alliance Bancorp.

Plans to allow U.S. banks to reduce the capital they hold create uncomfortable echoes of past turmoil in credit markets. As regulators contemplate relaxing standards meant to protect the public, they should look to past financial crises.

Rising assessment fees and the fear of punitive actions under newly installed state regulator Rohit Chopra may push some California-chartered banks to switch to a federal overseer, some industry observers say.

The White House has nominated Brian Johnson, the former CFPB deputy and a veteran Capitol Hill staffer, to permanently lead the bureau.

In passing the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, Congress intended to create national rules that would guide lending across state borders. States can't simply opt out of them.

Chair Travis Hill wants to shift resolution planning away from lengthy bank-generated narratives and toward rapid access to critical operational data during failures.

The former crypto wunderkid added a presidential-pardon application to the long list of attempts to get his sentence reduced.

The FDIC's recent analysis of the deposit flight that helped take down Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic banks in 2023 is informative. However, it leaves unanswered some important questions about regulators' assumptions related to brokered deposits.

The Trump administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has quietly scrubbed over a decade of consumer guidance and public records from its website.