Regulation

Following nomination hearing, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee says Gruenberg, Curry and Hoenig should move "all together."

Credit-union leaders called on Congress Nov. 16 to amend required disclosures at ATMs, eliminate annual privacy notices required for members and reduce financial reporting for small credit unions as part of its next round of sought regulatory relief.

MF Global's failure is an example of how a financial firm should be able to fail and not lead to systemic risk in the financial system, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on CNBC Thursday.

Consumers sued a total of 498 different collection agencies and creditors in the Oct. 16-31 period, down from 597 in the first half of October, according to data from U.S. District Courts.

In the first criminal case involving robo-signing of mortgage documents, Nevada's attorney general filed charges Wednesday against two people accused of filing tens of thousands of false documents.

The Treasury and the banking industry would like nothing better than to see more credit unions convert to taxpaying banks. This is hardly going to happen if CUs perceive the OCC as an inhospitable regulator of their mutual form.

Risk management expert Clifford Rossi looks at two recently released documents on the FHA, which he says together "bear ominous warnings about a portfolio in excess of $1 trillion."

Financial Services chairman says he never used insider information in making trades, and the market's poor state in 2008 was well-known.

Regulators are writing massive, complex rules that will be impossible to enforce. Editor at Large Barbara A. Rehm offers an alternative.

American Banker's editors discuss Wal-Mart's latest attempt to eat bankers' lunch.