Policy & Regulation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement actions and remittance rule were hot topics at a panel with agency official Michael Gordon.

To offer credit as a means of promoting savings is a bit like a hospital encouraging people to get sick so they can be healed.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will delay the effective date of new disclosures about escrow accounts and other items as the agency crafts a broader overhaul of mortgage forms.

The Clearing House has named the top executives of two of the nation’s biggest banks to lead its supervisory board in the coming year.

New York's Attorney General has issued a letter demanding that Wells Fargo (WFC) resume processing mortgage modification requests for borrowers in states hit by Hurricane Sandy.

An effort to overhaul commercial bankruptcy laws is in its early stages, and creditors in the syndicated loan market sense a threat to some of their most important tools for guarding collateral.

The Lansing, Mich., company has a confirmation hearing on Dec. 4. A delay could prove costly to Capitol's survival; the state regulator has threatened to seize the company's bank in New Mexico on Dec. 20.

Taxpayers are getting a bargain by propping up the cash-strapped Federal Housing Administration.

A Holiday album from John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John may spur a rash of bank failures and spur the Fed to act, according to the satirical newspaper The Onion.

Reintroduce an element of personal liability for highly paid senior bank executives, phase out the implicit government guarantee of senior creditors' claims at large banks and increase focus on board governance to ensure better aligned incentives.