Policy & Regulation

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have launched an online clearinghouse with resources to assist lenders in serving borrowers with limited English proficiency.

Policymakers must avoid reforms to the Community Reinvestment Act that would reopen the door to the predatory lending practices that contributed to the mortgage meltdown.

The legislative highlights of his career as House Financial Services Committee chairman were bills too extreme to become law. But the retiring lawmaker says they were still worth pursuing.

Several female executives accepted leadership roles throughout the industry and in regulatory roles during the past month.

Federal regulators shuttered the institution, which had just $3 million in assets, after it became insolvent with no viable path forward.

The largest U.S. bank's strong third quarter did not insulate its leaders from being pressed about the downside of pricey investments in technology, whether capital rules make commercial lending growth hard for big banks to achieve, and whether another economic downturn is edging closer.

A proposal to ease the leverage ratio for the country’s largest institutions raises questions about whether safety and soundness remain the top priority for the banking agencies.

The banking agencies should expand the use of regulatory sandboxes to keep pace with international counterparts.

The bureau says it lacks explicit authority to conduct routine supervision of lenders’ compliance with service member protections, but the decision has sparked pushback from the Defense Department and groups representing military personnel.

The Senate Banking Committee's latest hearing offers some clues.