Regulation

Directors should recognize that appropriate professional behavior reinforced by a sense of belonging to a quality franchise constitutes a decisive competitive advantage.

Patrick Fahey's last act as a turnaround specialist ended with the 2010 failure of Frontier Bank. First Sound Bank in Seattle is poised for a much different outcome.

Even as debit networks and other participants finally get on the same page for EMV chip-card acceptance, the U.S. is still a long way off from widespread consumer adoption of EMV cards.

Virtual currencies have finally garnered enough of a following to make the U.S. government react. Bitcoin's a big focus, but even companies like Facebook and Amazon.com may have to take FinCEN's new rules into account.

Cypriot lawmakers approved capital controls and legislation to wind down banks as they scrambled to secure a European bailout and avert a financial collapse of the Mediterranean island.

Demands for action to fix "too big to fail" are near a fever pitch. Following are the most likely scerios for how the debate is resolved.

The Senate is expected to pass two budget amendments Friday designed to break up the big banks and prohibit the use of certain fee hikes at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce government spending.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg accidentally took the entire allotted time for a speech on Friday to talk about his personal life growing up in the Bronx.

Sen. Tim Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has said he will announce a decision about whether to run for office again by the end of the month.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has terminated enforcement actions against two banks: First Bancshares of Mountain Grove, Mo., and CIB Marine Bancshares of Waukesha, Wis.