Regulation

If regulators continue to sting banks with overzealous enforcement actions and ill-conceived policies, they, like the scorpion in Aesop's fable, could find themselves up the creek without a frog or paddle.

Would the orderly liquidation authority in Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act work as intended in a megabank failure? The Clearing House Association staged a simulation to war-game that question and found it did.

The torrid pace of innovation in the financial industry, especially in the mobile-payment sector, brings problems as well as opportunity. One of those problems is patent issues.

The Senate late Thursday confirmed the top two senior officials to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. following months of uncertainty.

Wordpress, the world’s most popular Web publishing platform, has begun accepting Bitcoin, an international digital currency and payment system with no central issuing authority.

A bill to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks has again failed to clear a congressional hurdle.

Bankers may have fallen out of love with the Obama administration, but they're still hoping that its next Treasury Secretary will solve some of their problems.

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday gave the 19 largest financial institutions the economic variables that will be used to assess a firm's capital strength and resiliency to withstand an economic crisis.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council is looking at three possible reforms to the money market mutual fund industry, building on recommendations from SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro.

Tom Hoenig, a FDIC board member, reiterated his doubts that too big to fail has been eliminated, and offered his prescriptions for strengthening the system.