Policy & Regulation

Louisa Community Bank and Resolute Bank were closed on Friday, raising the year's total to three failures.

Why the Toronto bank is focusing on digital features; complaints about credit monitoring plans flood CFPB; the strategies midsize banks are relying on to stimulate growth; and more from this week’s most-read stories.

Facebook’s cryptocurrency would not help underserved communities, despite the claims of its CEO, who is slated to appear before Congress this week.

It's time to establish a fintech commission.

The Rakuten application has opened another front in the battle over nonfinancial companies' ownership of banks.

Readers react to Regions Financial's plan to replace its core deposit system, a House bill meant to curb jobs moved overseas, a resurgence of consumer complaints against the credit bureaus and more.

The National Credit Union Administration has unveiled a proposal to address a federal judge's concerns that its 2016 field-of-membership overhaul could discourage lending in low-income areas.

The Federal Trade Commission should look into whether Amazon’s failure to secure its services “constitutes an unfair business practice,” which would violate federal law, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden wrote the agency's chairman.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday they had joined the Global Financial Innovation Network.

Ravi Menon says that Facebook's bid to create its own digital currency has laid bare shortcomings in cross-border payments and financial inclusion that banks and regulators must address.