Policy & Regulation

Student CU Connect CUSO, which had made high-risk loans to students of the now-bankrupt ITT Technical Institute, agreed to a settlement resulting in an estimated $168 million of loan forgiveness.

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Synapse is working to refine its application programming interfaces to meet know-your-customer and other complex requirements, but it's a tall order, the head of the back-office-services platform says.

The watchdog and three Democratic lawmakers urged the agencies to stop using knowledge-based verification methods to grant access to their online portals.

There are clear actions that regulators at the CFPB, SEC and FHFA can take to help attract investors into the housing market, argues former FHFA Director Ed DeMarco.

President Trump sharply criticized Jerome Powell in an interview aired Friday, blaming the Federal Reserve chairman for raising interest rates.

Visa, Mastercard and PayPal are each putting up $10 million to back the cryptocurrency; company “gearing up” to reboot its flagging small business lending unit.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has appeared willing to take its own steps to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but legislation would be necessary to create an explicit guarantee of the mortgage system.

The central bank gathered feedback in nearly 30 roundtable discussions about regulators' efforts to modernize the 1977 law.

The Indiana company, which has an acquisition pending, will make more loans in minority neighborhoods around Indianapolis.