Policy & Regulation

Rep. Randy Neugebauer introduced a bill Thursday that is designed to reverse some of the negative effects of legislation enacted last year that cut the dividend the Fed pays larger banks. His bill would allow banks to redeploy capital held at the Fed.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to finalize its second round of mortgage servicing rules in July, a top agency official said. Laurie Maggiano, a program manager for servicing and secondary markets at the CFPB, also offered insights into the bureau's long-anticipated rulemaking on debt collection.

Banking regulators made several critically important changes in their new plan to restrict executive pay at financial institutions after their first attempt flopped in 2011. Here's what they did.

The Paris Agreement on limiting the rise in global temperatures opens up new lending opportunities related to low-carbon projects while highlighting an array of new risks for financial institutions.

Federal regulators unveiled a long-awaited proposal Thursday designed to target incentive-based pay arrangements for executives at banks and credit unions, the agencies' second attempt after their initial plan met fierce resistance.

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.