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Regulators have made progress on revising stress tests, the Volcker Rule and other post-crisis measures. But some worry examiners still have too much latitude to punish banks for trivial matters.

The German lender was a correspondent bank for the Tallinn, Estonia, branch of Danske Bank that is the focus of multiple international investigations.

The initiative would allow financial firms to test new — and potentially less transparent — disclosure forms on customers.

The end of one-party rule in Washington could move the needle on efforts to devise a new housing finance framework.

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As regulators get set to unveil a new capital ratio for community banks, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams said she wants to go even further to simplify the capital regime.

Payday lenders argue that banks cut ties with their industry due to pressure from biased and hostile regulators. But the reality, in some cases, may be more nuanced.

The Justice Department is seeking information about potential transactions the banks may have handled for a small Danske branch in Estonia that’s at the center of one of the biggest money-laundering investigations in history, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration should consider putting much of the subsidized mortgage lending done by the federal government under the government-sponsored enterprises to improve efficiency and transparency.

Prosecutors are unlikely to buy Goldman's rogue banker defense, observers say; survey predicts recession within two years.