Policy & Regulation

We need a variety of small-dollar credit products to meet a variety of consumer needs. So the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposed payday plan must provide more flexibility.

Global trade protectionism in other countries increasingly poses an obstacle to keep the market for payments networks competitive.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling R-Texas, is set Tuesday to unveil an ambitious plan to revamp the Dodd-Frank Act and replace it with a capital-based alternative during a speech in New York.

At a time when most banks are finding it harder to make money from overdraft fees, new data shows that Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are bucking the industrywide trend. The numbers are renewing consumer-protection concerns ahead of a CFPB rule-writing process set to begin later this year.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to change how it calculates title insurance fees as part of the new integrated mortgage disclosures.

Banks are stepping up opposition to looming capital standards, with one of the financial industry's largest lobbying groups warning that regulators risk slowing the global economy with a clampdown on lenders' ability to judge the health of their own borrowers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit Monday against payment processer Intercept Corp. and its two top executives for allegedly enabling clients to withdraw millions of dollars' worth of illegal charges from consumer bank accounts.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit Monday against payment processer Intercept Corp. and its two top executives for allegedly enabling clients to withdraw millions of dollars’ worth of illegal charges from consumer bank accounts.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network violated the U.S. Constitution by singling out a Tanzanian bank as a money-laundering concern without due process, the bank claimed late last week.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen encouraged her fellow central bankers to accelerate their studies of new financial technologies, specifically mentioning bitcoin, the blockchain, and other distributed ledgers, according to the trade group whose conference she attended.