Regulation

Mark Conner, former president of FirstCity Bank of Stockbridge, Ga., pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and perjury, according to the Justice Department Friday. FirstCity Bank was closed in March 2009.

Right now, the government is at risk for an increased share of the reduced amount of residential mortgages that are being produced. This is another damnable result of the recent crisis. No proposed remedy for it has attracted much support. I'll suggest alternatives.

Two community banks in Georgia, and one in Florida, were closed late Friday at a cost of more than $130 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

When Sheila Bair thinks about regrets during her tenure as Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., she zeroes in on one word: No.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced on Oct. 18 that Craig Jarvill has become the director of the agency's Division of Finance.

Not surprisingly, Elizabeth Warren's bid to represent Massachusetts in the Senate is attracting Democratic support well beyond her small state.

Even though his nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sits in limbo, some of the work Richard Cordray did as Ohio's attorney general is coming to resolution. Yet the outcome is probably not to his liking.

Members of the House Financial Services Committee have you covered — as long as you pony up to help their reelection campaigns.

Former Kansas City Fed president will likely let his disapproval about Dodd-Frank policies be known, but his views on bank examinations and TBTF seem in line with FDIC thinking.