Policy & Regulation

Christy Romero, the inspector general monitoring Tarp, says the same financial institutions deemed too big to fail have only gotten bigger.

A legislator in San Francisco is seeking a review of possible losses to the city from banks' alleged manipulation of a benchmark that determines the price at which banks lend to one another.

Sens. Sherrod Brown and Chuck Grassley are requesting information about the Justice Department's prosecutorial decisions regarding some of the country's biggest financial institutions.

Without a permanent director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has no authority to create or enforce regulations against nonbanks. However, attorneys and industry consultants say several recent mortgage regulations approved by Richard Cordray may still be upheld.

A federal appeals court ruling last week might force Democrats to cut a deal with Republicans over the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The state is receiving a notably large share of national mortgage settlement benefits because of the level of harm the state sustained during our nation's mortgage crisis.

National Bank Holdings (NBHC) reported a higher quarterly profit thanks to a wider net interest margin and lower tax and loan-loss provisions.

Raj Date, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's No. 2 who has helped build the bureau from the ground up, rejected the claim that the 'qualified mortgage' rule will push lenders out of the business and said the mortgage industry managed "to do almost everything wrong" prior to crisis.

Stress testing is far from a fail-safe, but does increase a bank's resilience to economic shocks.

Visa and Citigroup, working with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, plan to connect governments, NGOs, the private sector and others to advance global financial access by the end of this decade. Their Financial Inclusion 2020 campaign aims to do this by increasing access to credit, savings, payment tools and insurance for people all over the world.