Regulation

It seems clear that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau believes balloon mortgages are not abusive or predatory. Why, then, does the rule so restrict their use?

Nearly three years after the implementation of a landmark credit card reform bill, the CFPB faces a monumental challenge: determining whether the law helped or hurt consumers.

Banks may struggle to raise funds from insurers due to a conflict between Basel III rules for lenders and Solvency II regulation for insurers, Prudential CEO Tidjane Thiam said.

The industry trade association released the results from its simulation of an "orderly" Dodd-Frank wind-down, as well as a paper endorsing the FDIC's resolution approach.

Why haven't any senior Wall Street executives gone to jail for the financial crisis? PBS' "Frontline" is the latest mass media outlet to ask this increasingly unanswerable question.

Dwolla announced Jan. 22 that it's working with the Iowa state government to accept official payments.

The Progressive Campaign Change Committee, a liberal activist group, has recorded over 33,000 names on a petition backing Rep. Barney Frank for a temporary Senate seat.

House Democrats on the Financial Services Committee are not only sending letters to regulators on financial services-related rules in the Dodd-Frank reform law, but they are also focusing on foreign energy extraction.

Nearly three years after the implementation of a landmark credit card reform bill, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces a monumental challenge: determining whether the law helped or hurt consumers.

Flathead Holding Co. of Bigfork, Mont., has entered into an agreement with regulators to bolster its capital.