Opinions

Though Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney tried unsuccessfully to strip the agency's fair lending office of its enforcement powers earlier this year, he insisted this week that the bureau "is still in the fair lending business."

In its proposed “disclosure sandbox,” the bureau has eased restrictions on firms seeking a safe harbor from liability.

The tightening of Senate races in Republican strongholds has raised the prospects of Democrats having even more influence on regulatory appointments and the legislative agenda.

Marianne Lake could be JPM’s eventual choice to succeed Dimon; three agencies investigating money laundering allegations against Danske Bank.

Olson ran a bank founded by his father in his hometown of Fergus Falls, Minn., before a long career in Washington.

Mary Daly succeeds John Williams, who left the bank earlier this year to run the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The agency’s director has been under pressure to quit as he is investigated for sexual harassment allegations, but an agency spokesperson says he still plans to testify at a housing finance hearing slated for later this month.

The state's banking regulator and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors are reviving litigation after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it would accept charter applications.

The prospects are tough for Thomas Borgen of Danske Bank, whose Estonian unit has been described as a central pipeline for laundering as much as $9 billion between 2007 and 2015 in dirty money, mostly from Russia.

The House Financial Services Committee has steadily passed regulatory reform legislation this year. But any measure faces a stiffer challenge in the upper chamber.