Regulation

Banking and payments executives try desperately to figure out where their debit card strategies all went wrong – and what, if anything, they can do next – at an industry conference.

We've already seen Occupy Foreclosures. How about Occupy The Wall Street Journal, Occupy Fox News or Occupy PBS?

A Utah bank linked to an alleged Internet payment scam and an online gambling case was seized by the state late Friday, on a night when regulators also closed a bank in Nebraska.

Washington insiders were momentarily shocked last week when it appeared that President Obama had withdrawn his nomination of former Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Chief Thomas Hoenig for vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Sen. David Vitter, who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, sent out a press release condemning executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for paying $12.79 billion in bonuses. There was just one problem: the actual number was $12.79 million, not billion.

William (Bill) Matthews and Tim Doyle receive promotions at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors

Mark Carney's appointment as chairman of the Financial Stability Board drew praise from Sheryl Kennedy, managing director of the consulting firm Promontory Canada, whose earlier work at the Bank of Canada overlapped with Carney's tenure there.

Lower borrowing costs under the government’s refinancing program for underwater homeowners mean lower interest payments for investors, and banks are the biggest holders of agency mortgage bonds.

A New York firm that represents banks in foreclosures is coming under the spotlight on Capitol Hill after the publication of offensive photos from its Halloween party.

ICB Financial in California paid the FDIC $500,000 for a waiver against any cross-guarantee liability from the failure of Progress Bank of Florida.