Regulation

Chicago will become the first city in the nation to provide the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with information about local lenders' activities, including potentially fraudulent ones. The CFPB's Richard Cordray hopes other municipalities will follow suit.

An online advertising firm has settled FTC charges that it used "history sniffing" to gather data from consumers about their interest in issues from debt relief and credit repair to fertility and incontinence.

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Put aside the "doom and gloom" about the fiscal cliff and focus on the things banks having going for them in the long run, BB&T CEO Kelly King urges.

The Treasury Department raised more than $7 million from the sale of nearly 5.8 million warrants to purchase common stock in Zions Bancorp. (ZION).

Here's what you need to know about Tim Pawlenty, the new leader of the Financial Services Roundtable: he's nice, normal, self-deprecating and ready to emerge as an influential voice in the years ahead on industry issues.

The Office of Financial Research held its first advisory committee meeting on Wednesday, asking a range of industry participants how the agency can better collect and analyze financial data to detect systemic threats.

Chicago is soon to become the first city to report financial activity and fraud to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Chicago will become the first city to report financial activity and fraud to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but Director Richard Cordray is hoping other municipalities will follow suit.

Cyrus Amir-Mokri, the assistant secretary for financial institutions, said the industry's technological advances should be accompanied by an awareness of the risk of systems breakdowns.