Policy & Regulation

The country is lagging behind others when it comes to ensure that a consumer's financial data is available to third parties, and regulators need to step up.

Readers react to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's fintech charter, respond to another bank outage, opine on the impact of regulation and more.

Whereas most regulators appointed in the Trump administration are focused on rolling back the post-crisis framework, Nellie Liang helped create it.

Policymakers have begun taking positive steps to update and improve existing regulations, though there’s still a lot more work to be done.

The Danish bank updates amount laundered; Goldman near deal for its Simon app.

Liang is currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and previously led a Fed board division in charge of financial stability policy and research.

State regulators and advocacy groups say a federal breach notification standard could supersede state laws that already benefit consumers.

The comments came on the same day that Denmark’s largest bank announced the resignation of CEO Thomas Borgen and said that as much as $234 billion flowed through its tiny Estonian unit between 2007 and 2015.

Community bankers reject the conclusions of a Government Accountability Office report that say regulatory burdens only had a “modest effect” on the declining number of banks since 2010.

The Massachusetts senator said a private event where Mick Mulvaney briefed donors about the party’s midterm prospects may violate the Hatch Act.