Policy & Regulation

Top executives from Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp, American Express, MasterCard, Microsoft and Apple are expected to participate as part of a White House summit on cybersecurity issues in California on Friday.

Nearly four years after the Basel Committee published its guide and three years after JPMorgan's "London Whale," banks and the Fed still have a long way to go before operational risk can be reliably measured and mitigated.

The FDIC welcomed seven new members to a committee on Wednesday that will provide recommendations on policy and regulatory issues affecting community banks.

WASHINGTON — Federal bank regulators made a tool available on Wednesday to help banks calculate capital requirements for securitization exposures.

GOP lawmakers on Wednesday harshly criticized the Federal Housing Administration's recent move to lower insurance premiums, saying it violates the law and will be used to entice borrowers into predatory loans.

The central bank is floating the concept of using the Internet to facilitate the direct clearing of transactions between financial institutions, which would likely diminish its own role in the U.S. payment system.

The central bank is floating the concept of using the Internet to facilitate the direct clearing of transactions between financial institutions, which would likely diminish its own role in the U.S. payment system.

Outcries about regulators' negligence in ending too big to fail ignore a number of major developments since the financial crisis, including the new orderly liquidation authority and the overhaul of the regulatory capital framework.

Many colleges partner with banks to offer students special accounts. Unfortunately, the benefits of these accounts are grossly overstated and can even cause harm.

There's an almost endless list of reasons for payment companies to avoid doing business in Russia, but the opportunities are just as vast.