Regulation

The agencies responsible for implementing the restriction on proprietary trading have asked the public to respond to hundreds of questions over the next three months that will help shape the final version.

Despite the drop in failure predictions, officials warn that the condition of the economy remains uncertain and give no signs of premium reductions.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh tackles too big to fail, preemption and Basel III in an exclusive video interview with American Banker's Donna Borak

FNB United Corp. is another step closer to completing its proposed acquisition of Bank of Granite Corp. after receiving approval for the deal from the Federal Reserve of Richmond.

Meanwhile, FDIC projects slight improvement in bank-failure costs.

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed regulations outlining how banks should restructure their operations to comply with a new ban on risky speculative bets.

A U.S. district court, responding to charges by the Federal Trade Commission, has ordered a defendant who assisted in a wide-ranging government grant scheme to pay $1.68 million, and has banned her from marketing money-making opportunities to consumers.

Big bank critic Arianna Huffington had some unusually kind words for bankers at The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking gala, but she said in an interview that there's still an "enormous amount that needs to be fixed" in the industry.

Two collection agencies that work for the Education Department paid more than $4 million combined in civil penalties in the past year after another federal agency accused them of using abusive language with consumers, making illegal threats and committing other violations of the law.

American Banker editors discuss draft proposals for limiting banks' speculative trading.