Policy & Regulation

Global regulators beefed up rules for tackling interest-rate risk in banks' loan books, but stopped short of imposing binding capital requirements after fierce opposition from the financial industry.

Despite his loss in the New York primary on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz is fighting hard to win the Republican nomination. But eliminating the CFPB could be an even tougher challenge if he is eventually elected president.

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators have been asking global banks to draw contingency plans for the possibility of Britain's leaving the European Union, according to a Reuters report.

Research published in 2014 found that just 18% of U.S. checking account holders pay 91% of all bank overdraft fees.

Continued doubts over ending "too big to fail" should force managers to elevate underappreciated staff whose job is to attack oncoming risks.

The Federal Reserve's inspector general said the central bank's Board should beef up its safeguards for releasing market-sensitive economic data and policy statements, highlighting risks of its practice of giving journalists some information under embargo.

To tackle alternatives to payday lending, regulators and the industry should consider these three ideas for pilot programs instead of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trying to fix what it cannot.

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau study found that borrowers pay steep bank penalty fees and may have their checking accounts closed when they take out online payday loans.

WASHINGTON — Michael Wilson officially assumed the titles of president and chief executive of the merged Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines on Monday, a little sooner than expected.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it would allow banks with less than $50 billion in assets to request off-site examination of loan files, a move intended to reduce the regulatory burden for smaller institutions.