Policy & Regulation

There's going to be significant overturn on the House Financial Services Committee next year, thanks to a number of retirements and several lost races.

Accretive Health Inc.'s chairman and CEO should be dismissed because of stock losses resulting from the use of tactics to collect money from hospital patients, according to an investor lawsuit.

A section of Dodd-Frank tells regulators not to rely on the credit agencies, so an OCC rule that goes into effect in January says banks can't use thos ratings to prove the value of their investments. The bank have to use some other source or do their own analysis. That could get costly.

Banks shouldn't go to extremes to make up for declining earnings, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said Friday.

A federal judge granted preliminary approval Friday to the proposed settlement of a massive lawsuit brought by retailers against Visa, MasterCard and banks that issue their cards.

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday issued detailed instructions to financial institutions ahead of the upcoming stress testing exercise that begins next week.

Smaller banks, fearing the regulatory burden from the legislation will crush them and no longer holding the hope that Romney could lighten the load, are now weighing their future. For many that might mean consolidation.

Small banks won a critical battle Friday as regulators agreed to indefinitely delay implementation of Basel III until various issues with a proposal can be resolved.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has made it clear he plans to leave office, but who from a long list of likely (and far-reaching) candidates should be chosen as his replacement?

Fed Gov. Elizabeth Duke said heightened burden from Dodd-Frank and Basel rules could make mortgage lending a less viable option for community banks, which make up a "significant" portion of the market.