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The Trump administration released an executive order Friday calling for a review of the Dodd-Frank Act, but the immediate questions about the order focused on what authority the White House has to enact real change.

The Federal Reserve published the hypothetical stress scenarios it will use as part of the 2017 stress test cycle.

President Trump is scheduled Friday to order a review of Dodd-Frank and a halt to the Obama fiduciary rule. A signing ceremony is set for noon following a meeting of more than a dozen top corporate executives.

President to sign executive order Friday to roll Dodd-Frank as battle lines form over various sections of the act; Deutsche Bank's John Cryan issues an "especially contrite" apology for the German bank's past mistakes.

A federal appeals court on Thursday denied efforts by 16 Democratic attorneys general, several consumer groups and two Democratic lawmakers to defend the CFPB in a critical case.

The prospects for significant reform of the Dodd-Frank Act appear to be cratering as the political dynamic on Capitol Hill has quickly deteriorated in the wake of controversial executive orders by President Donald J. Trump.

A top House Republican is calling on the Federal Reserve to cease its participation in international standards-setting forums until after President Trump has installed his own leadership in the central bank.

A movement is afoot to eliminate the Federal Insurance Office, which was established by the Dodd-Frank Act, but here’s why that would be a mistake.

As a candidate, President Donald Trump proposed either halting or taxing remittances to Mexico to push the Mexican government to pay for a border wall along the southern border of the U.S.