Regulation

Black and Latino borrowers received government-backed loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs significantly more often than white borrowers, raising concerns about redlining, a new study has found.

The Illinois company spent three years trying to keep its Kansas and Florida banks from failing. The company, which has other banks, is not off the hook yet because the FDIC could charge it for the cost of the failures.

SunTrust, Huntington, First Horizon and TCF would suffer the biggest drops in Tier 1 common equity under proposed guidelines, unless they change their mix of assets.

Wal-Mart and Target have vocally opposed the card networks' proposed multi-billion dollar interchange fee settlement, but even these giants may not have the influence to spike the agreement.

You should be able to move your money as fast as you can make it. But the banking system today works about as speedily as the Post Office.

Fed Gov. Sarah Bloom Raskin urged regulators to narrow a potential loophole in the Volcker Rule that would allow some banks to bypass the ban on proprietary trading.

Use eminent domain to refinance unaffordable mortgages, cut through the mire of servicers, home equity investors and trustees. Protect homeownership and communities while respecting everyone's property rights.

It was an insanely busy week in Washington last week, as the CFPB took its first enforcement action, regulators finally designated nonbank systemically important companies and Dodd-Frank turned two. Here were the stories you shouldn't miss:

Consumers who might feel taken advantage of by con artists who claim they'll hope lower or resolve debts if an advance fee is paid might take some comfort in learning that troubled banks are falling for a similar scam.

Wal-Mart said that it takes issue with the multi-billion dollar swipe-fee settlement the card networks proposed this month.