Regulation

Regulators are closing in on a final Volcker Rule to restrict proprietary trading, dialing up certain requirements related to documentation while providing some flexibility on "market making" activities. This story includes a fully interactive timeline on Volcker's contentious history.

The world of lending and loan servicing is undergoing huge transformation, with operational changes that will take time to play out.

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NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Bank of New York general counsel Thomas C. Baxter Jr. criticized the financial services industry's ethics and culture on Friday, faulting bankers for valuing profits over relationships.

Barely a handful of lenders are refinancing student loans, despite a prolonged period of low interest rates and the surging debt burden for college graduates.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s watchdog is urging stronger coordination between separate agency divisions among its recommendations for improving the implementation of Dodd-Frank Act resolution powers.

The former president and chief executive of Bank of Choice in Greeley, Colo., will pay $65,000 to investors to settle charges he violated registration and anti-fraud provisions of the Colorado Securities Act.

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Daniel Tarullo on Friday floated three ways policymakers could strengthen a set of proposed market-wide reforms for securities financing transactions.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging regulators to strengthen their supplemental leverage ratio in order to help eliminate concerns over "too big to fail."

Retired Congressman Barney Frank, one of the architects of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, called Friday for both stringent standards and lenient enforcement around the law's much-watched Volcker rule.