Policy & Regulation

Ohio Valley Bank in Gallipolis has joined the Federal Reserve System.

Many merchants are still wary about accepting bitcoins, but new vendor partnerships and a maturation of the companies that handle bitcoin exchanges address some of the virtual currency's riskier aspects.

Organic growth, dealmaking and innovation are taking a backseat to compliance, bank executives told KPMG in a new survey.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency should require the government-sponsored enterprises to purchase loans with "deeper levels of credit enhancement (via mortgage insurance, lender recourse or capital market investors) in exchange for bona fide reductions in guarantee fees and other loan level charges," the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a new white paper released Monday.

Scores of foreign banks with very small U.S. operations still find themselves drafting "living wills" to provide U.S. regulators with a road map to their hypothetical failures, leading to calls for a lighter requirement.

Following ample debate over whether JPMorgan Chase’s CEO should lose his chairman title, there’s no clear indication of how Tuesday's shareholder vote will play out.

Technology has dramatically changed the way people bank, but many banks areresponding by closing and opening branches rather than arming themselves with data that could make existing branches more efficient.

Use risk-based capital only as a supplement to a meaningful leverage test, combined with traditional judgment-based safety and soundness supervision.

Bloomberg LP has hired a consulting firm with significant ties to financial regulators to help review its privacy policies.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association has named former U.S. Senator Judd Gregg its new chief executive.