Regulation

Regulation should be strong enough to protect investors yet business-minded enough to promote active derivatives, mortgage and other markets, says Judd Gregg, a former New Hampshire lawmaker and new chief executive of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

A proposal that banks break down their deposit fee income by overdraft charges and other revenue sources in quarterly call reports has sparked a debate over whether the reporting process should aid the development of consumer policy.

Reforming the housing finance system cannot and should not be rushed, especially since we lack basic information on the likely impact of the various proposed alternatives.

Prospects for a new trade agreement with the European Union are being threatened by measures that would boost capital requirements for the biggest banks, a group representing U.S. chief executive officers said in a letter.

The United States needs a new, 21st-century model for identifying, monitoring and reporting risk at banks. The model must be forward-looking, not backward-looking as the Camels ratings are.

Suffolk Bancorp in Riverhead, N.Y., has been released from a written agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

An unusual regulatory order penalizing a bank for favoring minorities, a scoop on a new bipartisan effort to craft housing finance reform and struggles to finalize Basel III were some of the most-clicked stories in Regulation and Reform last month. Following is a list of the stories you shouldn't miss:

Regulators may be overlooking a signal that could give them an opportunity to identify a new financial crisis, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

The legal fight over credit card swipe fees has been going on for years, but a resolution nears even as opponents' voices get louder. Here are some of the most noteworthy events in the ongoing courtroom case.

Joe Pierce, the president and CEO of Farmers State Bank, says a holiday ad, of all things, put him in an FDIC examiner's crosshairs.