Policy & Regulation

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry has asked a recently formed team of federal financial regulators to determine if supervisors are prepared to deal with cyber threats and whether more legislation is needed to confront the issue.

Community banks should do some serious soul searching about their mortgage operations as they approach the CFPB's January implementation deadline.

A former senior commercial loan officer at the failed Bank of the Commonwealth in Norfolk, Va., has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for hiding bad loans from regulators.

With proposals afoot in both chambers of Congress, and President Obama moving the issue to the forefront, we can dramatically modernize our country’s housing finance system.

The Bitcoin Foundation, a trade group, is urging the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to allow bitcoins to be used for federal political contributions.

The Federal Housing Administration's share of the mortgage market continued to drop in 2012, falling to 27% of first-lien mortgages after years of representing more than 30% of originations, according to data released Wednesday by federal regulators.

Emclaire Financial in Emlenton, Pa., has partly redeemed preferred stock it issued through the Small Business Lending Fund.

Fannie Mae overpaid its servicers by roughly $89 million last year due to errors made during a manual review by a third-party vendor, according to an inspector general's report released Wednesday.

A centuries-old deterrent to counterfeiting, the watermark remains an enduring feature of our paper currency in an ever-digitizing world.

The first thing President Obama should have done after Larry Summers’ withdrawal was nominate Janet Yellen to be Fed chairman. Appointing the first woman to lead the Fed should be a historic moment. Obama has turned it into a consolation prize.