Regulation

Bankers and other lenders are all but begging for more time to implement the qualified mortgage and other pending CFPB regulations, arguing that the Jan. 10 deadline gives them insufficient time to prepare.

A bill to license and regulate for-profit debt settlement companies doing business in Massachusetts is gaining traction with state lawmakers.

The Federal Reserve has approved a capital plan that was re-submitted by BB&T Corp. of Winston-Salem, N.C., the regulator announced Friday.

It is time for the U.S. to take the lead in having the safest and soundest banks, rather than to strive toward the lowest common and detrimental denominator.

A court ruling in Philadelphia on Thursday states that consumers may withdraw their consent to have robocallers contact them by cell phone.

State and federal regulators appear to be orchestrating a series of actions to force financial institutions and third-party payment processors to stop doing business with certain online consumer installment lenders.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges against a former executive of UCBH Holdings, the parent of the failed United Commercial Bank in San Francisco.

The ratings agency is reviewing its rating of the senior and subordinated debt of six major banks due to indications that the federal government would unlikely support failing institutions, it said in a statement Thursday.

The Department of Justice has dropped a deferred money-laundering case against the banking unit of Ocean Bankshares in Miami, the company announced Thursday.

Two American Indian tribes sued New York state's financial regulatory agency and its head over his crackdown on Internet lending businesses, some of which are tribally owned.