Regulation

A group of 28 House Democrats wrote to President Obama urging him to address the nation's housing woes by installing a new leader at FHFA.

Top financial regulators — including the FDIC's Martin Gruenberg, the OCC's John Walsh and the Fed's Daniel Tarullo — will testify on Capitol Hill next week about their proposal to implement the Volcker Rule.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to shutter 131 farm lending offices in 32 states as part of a broad mandate from the Obama administration to trim $150 million from its annual budget.

Businesses around the country appeared more willing to apply for loans in the last quarter of 2011, the Fed said.

With President Obama touting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a symbol of his support for the little guy, Republicans struggle for a response that resonates with voters.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released supplemental guidance Wednesday to its exam manual, which will help examiners looking at mortgage origination at both banks and nonbanks.

While most banks have stayed mum about Richard Corday's recess appointment, Citigroup weighed in with its analysis in a blog post Wednesday.

Alexi Giannoulias, a former Illinois Treasurer whose 2010 Senate campaign was clouded by the failure of his family's bank, has landed a new job at Bank of New York Mellon.

The former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program blasts the Obama Administration for failing to support its own housing programs

The Federal Housing Finance Agency needs to develop specific rules to determine when it needs to take action against a troubled Federal Home Loan Bank, the agency's watchdog said.