Policy & Regulation

The head of the agency said she wants FDIC staff to be proactive with banks that show visible problems, but not “focus more on seeking out dirt than on whether the home is clean.”

Financial startups are becoming important partners for community banks and credit unions, despite lobbying efforts to limit their growth.

Despite some significant advancements in the past two years, rifts are already developing in the U.S. move to faster payments.

Readers debate the odds of legislative reform to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, consider the growing problem of "friendly fraud," weigh ways to avoid reputation problems and more.

The bill by Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and John Kennedy, R-La., would block banks and credit unions with over $10 billion of assets from refusing service to "customers that may not share the same political values."

The changes will expand the role of the Consumer Advisory Board and other panels, but stopped short of reversing the downsizing ordered last year by former acting Director Mick Mulvaney.

David Brickman will take the helm of the mortgage giant at a time of transformation in the mortgage market and housing finance policy.

The role of the central bank has changed over the decades, but presidential pressure on the Fed has been a constant.

The Swiss bank’s CEO calls the trading environment “one of the worst in recent history”; 10,000 of German bank's U.S. employees fret over their future.

Mark Calabria has notably criticized the government’s role in housing, but some groups have taken him at his word when he told senators that he supported affordable housing initiatives.