Policy & Regulation

The House Financial Services Committee is set to vote on a bill that would benefit just one institutions: Emigrant Bank, whose CEO Howard Milstein has made contributions to many of the bill's co-sponsors. And people wonder why Americans are cynical about politicians.

Prepaid cardholders are certain to enjoy more federal protection soon. But it remains open to debate how much those protections should resemble those for conventional bank accounts.

JPMorgan's trading loss should send shudders down the spine of shareholders, management and regulators. The once paragon of risk management has turned into a case study of what not to do.

The Federal Reserve Board has given a Premier Bank in Denver 90 days to become adequately capitalized or sell itself.

The Supreme Court affirmed Tuesday the right of lenders to use their debt as currency in bankruptcy auctions in a unanimous decision sure to reverberate through the corporate-restructuring community.

Several lawmakers pushing a bill that would assist only one institution - Emigrant Bank of New York - have received campaign contributions from its top executive, Howard Milstein.

The growing challenges that bankers face amid a fast-changing technological and regulatory landscape were the focus of CEB TowerGroup's annual conference in Boston last week.

There are at least three ways to break a bank. Give him a little more time and Jamie Dimon may demonstrate all three of them.

The Mortgage Bankers Association raised its 2012 forecast for residential originations on Thursday, citing low interest rates that have sparked a massive increase in refinance activity.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has replaced an order between North American Savings Bank and the Office of Thrift Supervision with one of its own.