Policy & Regulation

CPI Card Group Inc., which makes payment cards for lenders including Bank of America Corp. and American Express Co., cut the size of its initial public offering for a second time to $150 million and pared its share price amid choppy equity markets.

WASHINGTON — The House voted 303 to 121 on Wednesday to pass a bill that would delay enforcement of new mortgage disclosures that went into effect on Oct. 3.

Royal Bank of Canada has received approval from the Federal Reserve Board to buy City National in Los Angeles.

Credit card networks and issuers have done a poor job in explaining the implications of the just-passed Oct. 1 deadline for moving to EMV chip-and-PIN cards, leaving many small businesses confused, lawmakers said Wednesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

Banks say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plan to ban arbitration clauses for individual claims will aid trial lawyers, while consumer advocates say the move is overdue and may not go far enough.

Traditional banks avoid the short-term-credit market because its customers demand a level of customer service that is inconsistent with current models of retail banking, the head of a payday lending group writes.

The U.S. version of an international liquidity rule may include additional factors that make it harder to accurately compare between banks or examine the same institution’s liquidity holdings over time, according to a paper issued Wednesday by the Office of Financial Research.

From "too big to fail" to Glass-Steagall, the two leaders of the postcrisis recovery hashed out the economic issues, while pitching Bernanke's new book.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton staunchly defended the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday in a letter urging House Democrats to stand by the agency’s single-director structure.

Fifth Third Bancorp has agreed to pay nearly $85 million to settle fraud charges related to undisclosed defective Federal Housing Administration-insured loans.