Regulation

The Federal Reserve Board has terminated an enforcement order against Rosholt Bancorp in Wisconsin.

The American Bankers Association voted Thursday to create a SuperPAC for bankers — but it has an alternative structure from Friends of Traditional Banking, the only other banking SuperPAC.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn't want community bankers to stay up at night worrying about Dodd-Frank. Most of the provisions don't apply, he says. Well, what about the concern that the big bank requirements eventually be the norm for all? He assures us that won't be the case.

If President Obama wins reelection, Democrats are likely to stay on the defensive over Dodd-Frank while trying to grapple with the reform of Fannie and Freddie.

At the Democratic convention Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Senate candidate and pioneer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, offered “the week's highest profile defense of the Dodd-Frank Act,” writes American Banker’s Kevin Wack.

After Elizabeth Warren's fiery speech to the Democratic National Convention, there is talk that if she wins the Massachusetts Senate seat in November, she may be a contender for president in 2016.

The American Bankers Association released its official slate of candidates who are set to take office at the group's annual convention next month.

JPMorgan Chase's wrong-way bets on derivatives are the focus of an escalating probe by a Senate panel led by Carl Levin that has grilled executives from banks including Goldman Sachs and HSBC.

The Fed unveiled on Thursday a new publication and website aimed at community bankers, including a question and answer session with Chairman Ben Bernanke on the challenges facing smaller institutions.

The Treasury Department will auction its stakes in five more banks — including shares it owns in an Illinois bank that it previously failed to sell — as it continues to wind down the Troubled Asset Relief Program.