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Until recently, there was a consensus among policymakers that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac needed to be eliminated. That just changed. Here's why.

Fed's supervision chief wants more openness on bank stress tests; cybercurrency jumps 40% in 40 hours, climbing past $19,000.

The JPMorgan Chase CEO supports easing regulations on mortgage lending but says other major provisions of Dodd-Frank should remain intact.

The maximum loan amount for Federal Housing Administration mortgages will go up in more than 3,000 counties for 2018.

A whistleblower charges that during the Obama administration, Treasury's Office of Financial Research manipulated information that it provided during a review by the Governmental Accountability Office.

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday proposed to give banks more insight into portfolio performance under its stress testing models in an effort to help banks better understand the Fed’s methodology.

The central bank should take new steps to ensure that examiners do not become too cozy with the big banks they supervise, a government watchdog said.

The new standards are aimed at reducing the variability between regulatory treatments of risk-weighted assets.

More than 10 months into office, the Trump administration’s takeover of banking regulators is effectively complete – with one notable exception

More regulation, more regulators and more regulatory uncertainty both increase the cost of and inhibit financial services and payments innovation.