Regulation

The plan places a greater burden on bank managers to stop money laundering, with board members overseeing companies caught breaching the law also facing punishment if they fail to intervene.

The Financial Choice Act contains many positive reforms for community banks, but a provision affording benefits for holding loans on balance sheet poses risk for small lenders.

Though James Clinger has been a top aide to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, observers said the FDIC chair nominee's views may differ.

The Bank for International Settlements, the Basel-based central bankers' bank, isn't ready to call an end to financial globalization.

The administration’s regulatory blueprint would undermine the calculation of the so-called leverage ratio, a key ingredient in determining large banks’ capital strength.

In 1981, a Louisiana banker sarcastically offered advice to a money market fund chasing deposits in his market, presaging today’s battles over nonbanks encroaching on banks' turf.

Michael Blume oversaw the controversial effort to crack down on consumer fraud by pressuring banks to cut off certain merchants’ access to the U.S. payment system.

The Fed is preparing to release the results of its annual stress tests in what is likely to be the last iteration of the post-crisis supervisory program before sweeping changes are made.

Following are notable cases where banks were tripped up by the Fed's stress tests either by flunking the numbers (or quantitative) part of the test or raising red flags on a qualitative basis.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday to remove 12 Wells Fargo board members because of the fake-accounts scandal.