Policy & Regulation

Amy Friend, the former chief counsel of the Senate Banking Committee is expected to rejoin the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Friend, who helped draft the Dodd-Frank Act, will be the OCC's top lawyer.

Amy Friend, the former chief counsel of the Senate Banking Committee who previously worked at the OCC, will succeed Julie Williams as the agency's chief counsel.

The president and six former officers of a failed Savannah, Ga., bank were indicted on Jan. 11 on charges of fraud and conspiracy related to failed commercial loans.

President Obama is considering two women for senior economic positions, weighing Ruth Porat, CFO at Morgan Stanley, for deputy Treasury secretary and Wal-Mart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell for budget director.

Banks, subprime lenders and borrowers had varying reactions to the agency's long-awaited ruling on qualified mortgages.

The Obama administration has ruled out minting money as a way to sidestep the nation's borrowing limit. The Treasury Department will not produce a trillion-dollar platinum coin to pay the federal government's bills, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Cezar Butu of Romania, who pleaded guilty to taking part in hacking terminals at hundreds of U.S. Subway sandwich shops from 2009 to 2011, was sentenced this week to 21 months in prison.

Westside Community Bank in University Place, Wash., became the first failed institution of 2013 late Friday.

An enterprise that compiled and sold criminal record reports has agreed to settle FTC charges that it operated as a consumer reporting agency without adhering to Fair Credit Reporting Act rules.

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