Regulation

Prosecutors charged three men with taking part in a $100 million fraud involving the former chief executive officer of Manhattan's Park Avenue Bank, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to lying to regulators and embezzling funds.

The battle over interchange fees moves to its next phase Tuesday when a federal judge hears complaints from merchants that the Federal Reserve's cap on the fees not go far enough.

Examiners will be able to take their complaints to the comptroller's office when they disagree with supervisory decisions.

U.S. regulators are making significant progress in implementing Basel III, according to a scorecard released Monday by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. But the EU received a worse grade.

One year after the Durbin Amendment slashed debit interchange payments to banks, there’s scant evidence that retailers are lowering prices as promised.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has lifted a cease-and-desist order against Twin City Bank after it raised fresh capital.

A practical, well-executed plan, even one with disappointingly modest goals, will deliver more than an overly ambitious plan, easily subverted, that in hindsight probably had no hope of ever succeeding.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council took another step Friday toward designating certain nonbank firms as systemically important. One key question is how, and how hard, those named will push back.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board stands ready to repeal a directive that allows banks to record a gain in income when the value of their own fixed-income securities decreases, and losses when the liabilities' worth rises.

The Dodd-Frank Deposit Insurance Provision, which insures accounts over $250,000 is set to expire by the end of the year. When the program (often referred to as its first incarnation, the Transaction Account Guarantee) ends, funds over the limit will be moving to money-market funds, analysts predict according to the Wall Street Journal.