Regulation

The nation's biggest banks may be too big to fail but they enjoy little advantage when it comes to the cost of capital.

The more that compensation designs depart from well-grounded pay-for-performance principles, including appropriate metrics and actual financial results, the less effective they are as an incentive

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuits filed against collection agencies and creditors posted large gains on a month-to-month basis as well as compared with a year ago, a reversal of last year's trend.

A turn towards small local Bitcoin exchanges could keep the digital currency out of trouble while preserving the self-sufficient ethos of the Bitcoin community.

Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman acknowledges "complexities" in investigating bigger banks but tells a House panel that they "do not equal immunity" from criminal action.

Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee grilled Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Wednesday over various policy issues, including the Volcker rule, mortgage finance reform and the Internal Revenue Service scandal.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers that his concerns about financial stability risks from historically low interest rates have "increased a bit."

The most effective housing reform would let the GSEs do what they do best: act as a conduit for private capital to enter the residential lending market.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expanding efforts to coordinate with state bank and nonbank regulators on supervision and enforcement.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said that he believes the government-sponsored enterprises need to be retained in some form because the guarantee they provide is important to investors.