Policy & Regulation

Fourth Corner Credit Union has lost its court battle to offer banking services to the marijuana industry, but its organizers are not throwing in the towel.

Sen. Richard Shelby's bill changing how regulators gauge if a bank is "systemic" would refocus post-crisis policy on institutions that pose the greatest threat.

A Colorado credit union's failed court battle against the Fed has led to renewed calls for U.S. lawmakers to offer stronger protections to financial institutions that provide banking services to legal pot growers and distributors.

After several years of tussling with mortgage rules and their implementation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is focusing on several areas that will primarily affect the nonbank market, including debt collection, payday-type loans and prepaid cards.

JPMorgan Chase will pay $4 million to settle a U.S. regulator's claims that the company misled private-bank customers about how its brokers were paid.

After enduring a slew of post-crisis scandals, bankers are beginning to see the light on becoming stewards of their organizations.

A federal judge has rebuffed a legal challenge by a credit union in Colorado that was set up to serve the marijuana industry but then denied access to the U.S. payment system.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., has agreed to settle a lawsuit tied to how it determines overdraft fees on debit card and ATM transactions.

Banking industry officials hailed changes Tuesday to a Financial Accounting Standards Board rule that they have long complained unfairly distorts banks' quarterly earnings.

In a speech in New York City, Sanders vowed to remove the ability of the Federal Reserve to pay interest to banks for their excess reserves, turn the credit rating agencies into nonprofits, allow the U.S. Postal Service to offer bank products, and cap ATM fees and interest rates for loans.