Policy & Regulation

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Friday launched an interactive Web site marking of its 100th anniversary since the U.S. central bank was created by President Woodrow Wilson.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray debunked myths on Thursday about the agency's new mortgage rule.

Reduced lending, fewer leaders in times of crisis and less innovation – that’s what we’d have if only the biggest banks were allowed to survive.

Colorado's top banking regulator — the only state supervisor to get overruled by the Federal Reserve Board on a failure — is retiring.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg said the agency plans to release a report next year exploring how mobile phone use could help expand access to banks.

Metropolitan National Bank in New York is changing its name and ditching its national charter.

The Federal Reserve Board has ended a regulatory action against PathFinder Bancorp (PBHC) in Lake Oswego, N.Y.

The Federal Reserve Board says it followed a proper system for establishing debit interchange caps and fully abided by the Durbin Amendment's requirement for merchants to have two unaffiliated networks to choose from for routing debit transactions.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray said down payment standards are among the falsehoods rumored to be in the agency’s mortgage regulation that takes effect Jan. 10.

American Airlines and US Airways have argued that the combined airline will be good for "competition, consumers and choice." But just days before the merger's closing, changes that the airlines have made to a popular credit card reward may end up having the opposite effect.