Policy & Regulation

A turn towards small local Bitcoin exchanges could keep the digital currency out of trouble while preserving the self-sufficient ethos of the Bitcoin community.

Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman acknowledges "complexities" in investigating bigger banks but tells a House panel that they "do not equal immunity" from criminal action.

Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee grilled Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Wednesday over various policy issues, including the Volcker rule, mortgage finance reform and the Internal Revenue Service scandal.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers that his concerns about financial stability risks from historically low interest rates have "increased a bit."

The most effective housing reform would let the GSEs do what they do best: act as a conduit for private capital to enter the residential lending market.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expanding efforts to coordinate with state bank and nonbank regulators on supervision and enforcement.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said that he believes the government-sponsored enterprises need to be retained in some form because the guarantee they provide is important to investors.

As much as David Fiderer and others try to defend the GSEs and the policies that drove them into insolvency, the taxpayers who bailed them out are unlikely to be fooled.

The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday plans to ban the use of four payment methods favored by con artists and scammers.

Now that shareholders have agreed to let Jamie Dimon keep both his jobs at JPMorgan Chase, the chairman and chief executive must resolve several pressing issues. Among them: succession, board composition and mounting regulatory scrutiny.