Policy & Regulation

Federal bank regulators gave their examiners new guidelines Wednesday for supervising technology service providers.

MasterCard posted a third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as U.S. consumer spending increased.

Barclays posted a 29% gain in third-quarter pretax profit and said it was the target of two more regulatory investigations.

After more than a year of planning and regulatory scrutiny, a United Kingdom mobile commerce joint venture called Project Oscar isn’t quite ready to call itself a mobile wallet or payments service.

Ally Financial said Wednesday that it has repaid $2.9 billion of debt issued under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program.

Bubble-era claims about the various ways that owning a house could make you and your children happier are coming back to life.

Parkmobile USA, a company that accepts mobile payments for parking charges, is facing a backlash after blaming its fee increase on a recent cap to debit card interchange rates.

Why are there so few women at the top ranks of large banks? One factor: they lose hope. That needs to change, editor-at-large Barbara Rehm says.

Press releases continue to repeat Treasury's nonsensical claims about the "profit" the program has produced for taxpayers. But it remains to be seen whether not letting banks go out of business actually benefited anyone.

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases are projected to finish more than 1,500 behind last year's pace, according to data from U.S. district courts. Not so for other key consumer statutes.