Policy & Regulation

Largest banks would be limited on how much risk they could have with each other; the credit bureau has hired the former head of the computer giant's Watson unit.

Readers respond to a bill designed to modernize the anti-money-laundering rules, applaud the acting head of the CFPB’s decision to fire the members of the bureau’s advisory councils, opine on when a bank ought to communicate it has been hacked and more.

The conversation about financial policy in Washington has moved past designations of giant firms.

The legislation unveiled this week left out a requirement — included in an earlier version — for new companies to report their true owners.

Marc Dann, a former Ohio attorney general, has a plan to publicly maintain the CFPB's consumer complaint database if acting Director Mick Mulvaney shuts it down.

The rule hews closely to a 2016 proposal but the central bank made a notable change to reflect a higher threshold for banks considered "systemically important."

It’s possible for a cryptocurrency to begin as a security and then transform into another type of asset, said William Hinman, who heads the regulator's division of corporation finance.

The OCC chief’s bizarre statements in House testimony produced shock waves that reached the Senate Banking Committee Thursday.

Institutions that have been opening consumer accounts without consent need to prepare for the fallout, even if the OCC has said it won't name names.

Proposed changes to Dodd-Frank's ban on proprietary trading are unnecessary and put the markets at risk.