Regulation

Regulators took a series of enforcement actions against banks last month in connection with management oversight, capital adequacy and other matters.

The operators of a scheme that allegedly deceived consumers trying to sell their timeshare properties are permanently banned from the timeshare resale business.

"Richard Cordray was reintroduced Thursday as the administration's long-term choice to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but huge questions remain over whether his second nomination for the job is any more likely to be approved than his first," writes American Banker's Joe Adler.

Visa Inc. is urging its shareholders to reject a proposal by activist investors that would require the card network to reveal detailed information about its lobbying activities.

A new chorus of "too big to jail" broke out among the masses as the president prepared to re-nominate Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and CapOne disclosed disappointing earnings.

What the mortgage industry wanted was a clear-cut rule from the CFPB. What it received was 800-plus pages of confusion.

A computer hacker from the online activism group “Anonymous” was sentenced in Britain to 18 months in jail for conspiring to attack the websites of Visa Inc., PayPal Inc., MasterCard Inc. and others.

President Obama's renomination of Richard Cordray, who has been running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under a controversial recess appointment, is garnering the same GOP concerns expressed when his name was first floated.

Why do we instinctively cower to power after financial crises and human tragedies? And what can be done about it?

The credit card network is being targeted by liberal investors over its ties to a conservative group that lobbies at the state level.