Policy & Regulation

Tim Pawlenty, president and chief executive of the Financial Services Roundtable, is urging Congress to pass information-sharing legislation and toughen requirements on retailers in the wake of the major data breach at Target.

Sheila Bair, who ran the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. during the financial crisis, will become an independent director for the Spanish banking powerhouse.

Federal legislation is needed to enhance cyber-threat information sharing so that good-faith responsive actions and information sharing will not trigger legal liability.

Experienced community bank executives know that failure to manage their bank’s sensitivity to interest rate risk can cause financial troubles.

Utah residents, by a 2-to-1 margin, favor more state regulations over payday lenders, according to a SurveyUSA poll.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday named Kevin Walsh as its deputy comptroller for market risk.

A group of 33 senators, mostly Democrats, is urging the new head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to resume funding for two affordable housing trust funds.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced additional supervisory expectations for eight of the largest U.S. banks as part of their preparedness for future crises.

A bipartisan group of senators are urging Treasury Secretary Jack Lew not to rely on a recent Office of Financial Research study as basis for labeling asset management firms as systemically risky.

The Oklahoma State Banking Department has closed Bank of Union in El Reno.