Policy & Regulation

The top leaders of the Senate Banking Committee said Thursday that they intend to reach a bipartisan agreement by yearend on a bill to revamp the mortgage finance system despite fears that the issue is losing momentum.

The Treasury Department plans to auction nearly $118 million of shares in six lenders as it continues to wind down the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued her drive to end "too big to fail" in a speech on Thursday, arguing lawmakers shouldn't wait until regulators have fully implemented the Dodd-Frank Act before taking action.

Regulators sought to reassure bankers about new mortgage rules at a conference in North Carolina this week, but remarks from all sides about pitfalls and policy mistakes fed the tension.

With the general push for more capital, liquidity, regulatory knowledge, and tools, the financial sector is safer and more competitive.

Payments technology company TIS will work with SAP to streamline Single Euro Payments Area [SEPA] compliance.

Through bitter experience, bond purchasers learned about the moral hazard embedded in private residential mortgage-backed securities and their grossly inadequate legal protections.

The state of Illinois is suing Safeguard Properties, alleging that it illegally broke into occupied homes of people in foreclosure or behind on their mortgages and locked them out or removed their belongings.

If you stop by bar Room77 in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood for a beer, you can leave the euros in your wallet and instead pay with the digital currency Bitcoin—a growing phenomenon in Germany and other countries that are changing their views on the currency.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. may settle regulators' probes into the bank's credit-card debt collection practices and sales of identity-theft products as early as next week.