Regulation

The results of the Federal Reserve Board's stress tests separated the strong from the weak among the 19 largest banks. Following is a breakdown of selected results and how individual institutions fared.

The industry largely backed Mitt Romney in the GOP primaries. With Obama's chances of reelection improving, should bankers be worried?

An appellate court has ruled that a borrower has the right to sue a servicer for violating the Home Affordable Modification Program, but a judge noted that the decision would have been helped by input from the Treasury Department.

The terms of the national mortgage settlement overlap to some extent with existing federal consent orders against the largest servicers, which could complicate banks' compliance efforts with both — and the role of the external settlement monitor.

Community bankers are worried about stress tests, even though there is nothing in the Dodd-Frank Act requiring them to do it. While regulators are not requiring the tests for smaller banks, they are increasingly encouraging bankers conduct such tests.

In Barbara Rehm's column "It's Time for Money Funds to Fess Up About Fluctuating Values," she characterizes the $1 net asset value as "a fiction," which is defined at something feigned, invented or imagined.

Phishers turn the tables and mobile payments still scare consumers in the big security stories of the week through March 15.

The appeals court ruling is likely to perpetuate the perverse situation in which banks view SEC legal settlements as a cost of doing business rather than a deterrent for fraud.

Orrstown Financial Services Inc. in Shippensburg, Pa., said it expects to reach formal agreements with regulators that could require it to strengthen its credit risk management practices.

For years, Litton Loan Servicing was open to making a deal with delinquent borrowers. Then Goldman took over.