Policy & Regulation

Concerns about moral hazard should not prevent Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from helping underwater homeowners avoid foreclosure.

"I'm suddenly liking being a regional bank," said KeyCorp CEO Beth Mooney. Dodd-Frank "has created a different playing field," one in which she believes regionals may fare better than larger or smaller banks.

A U.S. district court has halted a nationwide scam operating from the Dominican Republic – but pretending to be in Chicago – that allegedly peddled fake mortgage assistance relief to Spanish-speaking homeowners in the U.S.

In a society where blatant expressions of discrimination are largely considered to be unacceptable, discrimination often takes on subtler and more insidious forms.

A trade group for the country's biggest banks is lashing out at their most recent critics and defending their "social utility."

A Congressional investigation found HSBC engaged in money laundering and sanctions busting for ten years, in multibillion-dollar amounts. Perhaps not coincidentally, the bank has been disinvesting from the U.S. Let's invite them to complete their departure—fast.

"The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have decided not to define loan participation agreements as swaps." writes Allison Bisbey of Leveraged Finance News.

The Berkshire Bank, a New York lender with 11 branches, sued 21 banks including Bank of America, Barclays and Citigroup for damages over the alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate.

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Regulators in Georgia closed the $217 million-asset Jasper Banking, which became the industry's 39th bank to fail this year.