Regulation

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency took six enforcement actions and ended several others last month, the agency said Friday.

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

Bitcoin users who help maintain the digital ecosystem's official record of transactions may soon find themselves required to register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as administrators of the alternative currency.

A federal judge raised the possibility that banks will have to repay billions of dollars to merchants, but legal experts say the court lacks the authority to enact such an order.

Merrill Lynch & Co., the 99-year-old firm known for its "thundering herd" of brokers pitching stocks to Main Street, may cease to exist as a legal entity more than four years after being acquired by Bank of America Corp.

The Federal Reserve Board announced plans to collect $440 million in fees from 70 companies for increased supervision by the agency.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is keeping busy on her August recess, talking housing finance reform and meeting with community bankers in her home state of North Dakota.

The Federal Reserve Board said Friday it plans to collect $440 million in fees from 70 companies for increased supervision by the agency.

Tim Pawlenty, the head of the Financial Services Roundtable, has named Eric Hoplin as the trade group's next executive director.

Nowhere has the piecemeal approach to postcrisis regulation been more apparent than with the CFPB's Qualified Mortgage rules and its aggressive stance on the fair-lending doctrine of disparate impact.