Regulation

Consumers may not be pushing for stronger card security because they feel overly protected by the systems in use today. But they do face real costs for fraud.

PricewaterhouseCoopers failed to warn shareholders and the public about increased risk at Barclays. The auditor gave the British bank a clean report card on internal controls over financial reporting. We now know those controls were seriously deficient.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced three senior staff appointments this week, including a new examination chief and a top liaison to Congress.

Three California local governments may use their eminent domain powers to seize mortgages and restructure them to help distressed borrowers stay in their homes — much to the dismay of investors who hold the mortgages.

A recent survey by Ernst & Young shows more progress by banks to address deficiencies in their risk management practices, but growing concern for Basel III and new liquidity rules.

Even if we could trust megabanks to behave, there may be too much at stake to let systemically risky institutions live by self-imposed principles rather than hard and fast rules.

Nine of the largest, most complex financial institutions recently submitted living wills, plans required by Dodd-Frank detailing how they could unwind themselves facing a failure, to regulators.

The biggest U.S. mortgage lenders, whose first-quarter earnings were buoyed by gains on home loan refinancings, are raking in more profits as record-low interest rates and government efforts prolong the boom.

A VIP program run by Countrywide benefited numerous members of Congress, a handful of Capitol Hill staffers and then-HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, according to a report from the House Oversight Committee.

There are legitimate reasons to want to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Unfortunately, we haven't stopped talking about the specious ones.