Regulation

The Federal Reserve is investigating whether traders at the world's biggest banks rigged benchmark currency rates, raising the risk that firms will be penalized for lax controls as regulators look for wrongdoing.

Global regulators diluted a planned debt limit for banks amid warnings that the measure would penalize low-risk financial activities and curtail lending.

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President Obama announced three nominations to the Federal Reserve Board on Friday, but left the job of a second vice chair in charge of bank supervision unfilled.

Regulators posted condensed blueprints Friday from 116 banking firms on how they could be unwound in a failure.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will soon begin looking beyond the rollout of new mortgage regulations this month to other markets. American Banker's Rachel Witkowski, who covers the CFPB, offers insights into where the agency is headed and when.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken a different -- and more comical -- approach in getting the word out about its new mortgage rules, including an appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Regulators' reviews of big banks' internal resolution plans will become more rigorous in 2014 as a debate grows over what parts of the plans can be seen by the public.

A group of Republican senators introduced a bill Thursday evening to address concerns about treatment under the Volcker Rule of collateralized debt obligations backed by trust-preferred securities.