Policy & Regulation

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney’s staff is selling the move of agency employees as a cost-cutting measure. Don’t buy it.

The acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director should be investigated for potential Hatch Act violations following his controversial remarks at a banking industry conference, Senate Democrats said Tuesday.

Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the case could not proceed because the OCC has not actually granted the fintech charter to any firm.

The Federal Savings Bank has been under a spotlight since it was revealed that it provided $16 million in mortgages to onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Such options are being proposed by his top aides as Mulvaney seeks to cut spending at the agency by tens of millions of dollars, according to an internal cost-savings analysis obtained by Bloomberg News. Another budget-trimming idea: making employees share desks.

Overseas firms have been subject to nonpublic versions of the Federal Reserve reviews, but observers say some foreign banks may be tripped up by the public version.

Agencies are examining regulating cybercurrencies not named bitcoin; is Paul Achleitner to blame for the German bank’s problems?

The Federal Reserve's decision to allow the Territorial Bank of American Samoa access to the U.S. payment system creates only the second public bank in the country, and may pave the way for others in California, New Jersey and elsewhere.

The Treasury secretary has said that he doesn't see changes to the housing finance system happening this year, but he's hopeful something can be done after the elections.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney told a group of bankers last week that he intends to end public access to complaints, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two other Democrats argue that would be a mistake.