Policy & Regulation

Banks and others involved in buying and selling loans have won some battles and lost others relating to Dodd-Frank implementing rules. The next fight is over how tough to treat the cash-loan market.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will present a broad picture Tuesday morning of how banks and thrifts fared in the third quarter.

While B of A nips and tucks as it struggles to meet new capital requirements, JPMorgan Chase bemoans the severity of the rules from a position of relative strength, and hints at the rationale for the behemoths to dismantle themselves.

Regent Asset Management Solution Inc., based in Denver, and CEO Michael Scata must pay the state of Colorado $70,000 in civil penalties for alleged violations of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.

WASHINGTON — Regulators closed a bank in Louisiana, and another in Iowa, late Friday to bring the year’s failure total to 90.

The FDIC finished first among large federal agencies in the Partnership for Public Service's 2011 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government survey, with an employee satisfaction rating of 85.9 out of 100.

On Nov. 14 the president announced plans to appoint Janie Barrera and Sherry Salway Black to his Advisory Council on Financial Capability.

Newt Gingrich is surging in Republican presidential polls, but he was still thrown last week by a tough question at a recent debate from CNBC's John Harwood.

As in other East Coast cities, residents of the capital have had to adapt to a growing chill in the air. But the change was a little more abrupt for those at Thursday's nomination hearing for the Senate Banking Committee.

Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney team up on a measure that would give banks the right to appeal examination decisions.