Policy & Regulation

With President Obama touting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a symbol of his support for the little guy, Republicans struggle for a response that resonates with voters.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released supplemental guidance Wednesday to its exam manual, which will help examiners looking at mortgage origination at both banks and nonbanks.

While most banks have stayed mum about Richard Corday's recess appointment, Citigroup weighed in with its analysis in a blog post Wednesday.

Alexi Giannoulias, a former Illinois Treasurer whose 2010 Senate campaign was clouded by the failure of his family's bank, has landed a new job at Bank of New York Mellon.

The former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program blasts the Obama Administration for failing to support its own housing programs

The Federal Housing Finance Agency needs to develop specific rules to determine when it needs to take action against a troubled Federal Home Loan Bank, the agency's watchdog said.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering broadening protections for customer money in both the over-the-counter derivatives and futures markets after the failure of broker-dealer MF Global left customers short as much as $1.2 billion.

PARK CITY, UTAH –Consumer advocates still aren’t sure if new federal caps on debit card interchange will end up helping or hurting consumers.

The CFPB can and should impose safeguards against predatory payday lending institutions. And big banks should take heed and stop providing these lenders with lines of credit.

Two GOP senators took strong exception to recent suggestions by Fed officials that more should be done to fix the U.S. housing market.