Opinions

The $701 million acquisition will make Union the biggest community bank based in Virginia.

Roughly 58% of 6,000 voters in key states said they would support moving the bureau from a single director to a bipartisan commission, according to an industry-supported poll.

The trend of putting ever-smaller pieces of the same commercial mortgages into multiple securitizations requires investors to be extra careful, and will inevitably make workouts of bad loans more complicated.

Jim Donovan, nominated in March, was one of many Goldman Sachs alums to join the administration.

The Congressional Budget Office said only community banks would choose to hold higher capital in return for fewer rules while lowering its estimate of cost savings of eliminating new FDIC resolution powers.

The Trump administration’s examination of Dodd-Frank Act powers to allow regulators to seize and unwind a failing megabank is drawing criticism from supervisors at home and abroad.

The ability of federal agencies to interpret the Volcker Rule and other provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act could be a positive for advocates of deregulation.

Readers opine on legacy core systems, the negative messaging around the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Jamie Dimon defending his Trump ties, and more.

The Treasury secretary says the Trump administration doesn't support separating commercial from investment banking; wealthy neighborhoods are designated as low-income, benefitting banks with branches there.

The Trump administration must weigh risks to national security in its review of the $1.2 billion deal. Its decision will shed light on whether — given the president’s “America First” rhetoric — Chinese investment is still welcome in the U.S. financial services sector.