Regulation

Wall Street watchdogs are poised to take a major step toward overhauling limits on banks’ ability to trade with their own funds, according to people familiar with the effort.

The technology can help banks get the most out of the vast amounts of information at their disposal.

Bank shares are down more than 9% this month; the Fed has never imposed the countercyclical capital buffer before.

Tussles over risk-based capital have preoccupied the agency of late, but Rodney Hood says he also wants to foster growth of minority-owned institutions and make sure credit unions are taking the hacker threat seriously.

Ambiguity about which laws apply to blockchain technology has prevented certain companies from doing business in the United States.

From housing finance to Facebook’s crypto plans, moderators questioning the presidential candidates in Texas next month would have no shortage of financial policy topics from which to pick.

Banks currently can help their CRA performance with mortgages to anyone in a distressed neighborhood, but Joseph Otting said officials crafting a reform plan are considering limiting that to lower-income borrowers.

The head of the Senate Banking Committee invited the housing secretary to Idaho to discuss low-income housing shortages.

Know Your Customer and open banking create tough barriers for 'near real-time' account opening, says Entersekt's Jennifer Singh.

Regulatory sandboxes can create a lot of opportunity for the winners but inadvertently put losers at a competitive disadvantage.