Opinions

As the Senate Banking Committee is slated to consider the nomination of former Federal Reserve Gov. Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank, an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department into Fed chair Jerome Powell makes the nomination's passage out of committee uncertain.

Involuntary medical debt continues to impair the credit of an untold number of otherwise creditworthy Americans. Federal courts have left the door open for Congress to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act in a way that would address the problem.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said bankers and economists are broadly against lowering interest rates now, given uncertainty from the Iran war.

Banks are pushing back on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's draft of a five-year strategic plan, which includes a notable pullback from supervising nonbanks.

U.S. banks must navigate conflicting signals as Iran's crypto toll demands and rising pig butchering scams exploit the same stablecoin and correspondent banking rails.

The government's real-time rail, which had a banner year in 2025, has proposed a way for its members to access settlements for payments that include a party that's outside of the U.S. Payment experts say it removes some of the mud from cross-border real-time payments, but lingering hurdles remain.

The president's nominee for Fed chair should get a hearing, and there will be a lot of questions. What he isn't getting, at least right now, is a vote.

The former Fed governor's upcoming confirmation hearing will test whether he can satisfy both a president demanding lower rates and a Congress demanding independence.

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Friday that the length of time the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked will be a key factor in the longer-term inflation outlook — and, by extension, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy path.

Community Bankshares in Lagrange ran afoul of regulators after announcing a major expansion of its government-guaranteed lending operation in 2025.