Policy & Regulation

WASHINGTON — The Conference of State Bank Supervisors named Charles A. Vice, the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions, as the group’s chairman this week.

A new report from the Federal Reserve on debit card swipe fees suggests that the 2011 law that capped fees large banks could charge is not crimping revenues at smaller institutions, echoing earlier findings by the Federal Trade Commission.

Target Corp., Macy’s Inc. and other companies sued Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over credit-card and debit-card fees after retailers objected to a multibillion-dollar settlement of a similar suit.

Penny Pritzker defended her role in the 2001 failure of Superior Bank on Thursday, insisting that she had only tried to "salvage the situation."

Henry Holt & Co. announced a deal with Elizabeth Warren for her account of founding the CFPB, her Massachusetts Senate race and advocacy for the middle class.

With a litany of bipartisan reasons to oppose FATCA, ranging from privacy and sovereignty to U.S. economic competitiveness, it is startling that the legislation has advanced as far as it has.

It's hard to believe but true: more than 700 banks maintained a pristine Camels 1 rating throughout the six-year period bracketing the financial crisis. New Fed research shows why.

The nation's biggest banks may be too big to fail but they enjoy little advantage when it comes to the cost of capital.

The more that compensation designs depart from well-grounded pay-for-performance principles, including appropriate metrics and actual financial results, the less effective they are as an incentive

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuits filed against collection agencies and creditors posted large gains on a month-to-month basis as well as compared with a year ago, a reversal of last year's trend.