Regulation

Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised the issue about the regulatory burden facing community banks at a Senate Banking Committee hearing.

To keep costs down, insurers are exercising their right under the Affordable Care Act to insist consumers pay their premiums via automatic bank withdrawal. The Department of Health and Human Services is scrambling to make insurers accept plastic.

CFPB Director Richard Cordray said employers "play a critical role" in strengthening consumers' financial capability.

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

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. knows it must put some meat on the bones of its process for dismantling large financial firms, but is struggling to strike the right balance between providing too much detail and not enough.

Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said banks chasing 20% returns are aiming too high.

Straightening out bad actors is fine, but it won’t resolve the inconsistencies and consumer confusion about overdraft protection cited by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Pakistan is considering a law requiring banks to give the country's tax revenue agency access to online databases of account holders and their transactions.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the second-ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, earned a cameo in a ballet performance at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Bankers defended force-placed insurance practices and dodged questions about alleged industry kickbacks and price gouging at a private but well-attended meeting hosted by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.