Regulation

The Treasury Department took one for the team last week when they gave up Dan Tangherlini, the assistant secretary for management and chief financial officer, who was tapped to pick up the pieces as acting head of the General Services Administration.

Brian Sack, head of the markets group for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is leaving his post, effective Sept. 14.

Any number of things about Ben Bernanke's job could potentially keep him up at night.

For all the angst about heightened regulation in the banking sector, financial policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to a different industry: cell phones.

InComm, following a similar move by American Express, plans to stop selling gift cards in retail stores in New Jersey.

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a cease and desist order against Citibank Thursday for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act dating back to 2006.

While the Senate finally confirmed Martin Gruenberg to serve on the FDIC board, it's waiting until after the elections to confirm a chairman.

The Durbin amendment did not so much make the economics of low value payments unsustainable as reveal the fundamental truth that they were unsustainable to begin with.

The law takes steps to ensure that members of Congress do not use their office for personal gain. But as the president signed it into law, he said that it doesn't go far enough.