Regulation

If done right, the Fed's stress tests will motivate a renaissance in enterprise risk assessment, breaking the black box and bringing needed transparency to banks' exposures.

Bankers who were at last week's convention are considering ways to expand social media use and offer new products that will not run afoul of regulators.

Capital requirements for community banks should be raised outside of the Basel III process and through a much more simplified system of risk-weighted assets.

Three things are driving the growth of large banks: market demand, access to capital and regulatory burden created by existing and forthcoming legislation.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has terminated a consent order issued to Saehan Bank (SAEB) in Los Angeles.

The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions Division of Consumer Services is warning consumers about scammers targeting consumers with bogus collection calls.

Arguably the most important point of a Senate hearing investigating JPMorgan's Whale trades was the picture that emerged of a bank that didn't understand its risks and a regulator that couldn't keep up either.

Landmark Credit Union may buy Hartford Savings Bank in Wisconsin, the National Credit Union Administration board decided Thursday.

Top bankers went out of their way to praise the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its Director, Richard Cordray, at American Banker's Retail Financial Services Conference. Despite the happy talk, they stopped short of calling for the GOP to end its opposition to the bureau or for Cordray's directorship to be made permanent.

Promontory's connections and expertise turned the consultant into a private sector regulatory proxy. But those same strengths put the firm in the crosshairs after its role in the failed foreclosure review process and controversial work for MF Global and Standard Chartered.