Regulation

A trade group owned by the nation's largest banks wants Congress to require state governments to collect information about the true ownership of the companies they incorporate. Such a law could reduce the banking industry’s cost of complying with anti-money-laundering rules.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry defended plans to offer a nonbank charter to fintech firms, disputing, among other things, arguments that his agency lacks the legal authority to do so.

Cache Valley Bank in Utah agreed to buy Proficio's deposits and most of its assets.

It's hard enough lobbying for big changes on Capitol Hill, but sometimes it only gets harder when it comes time to actually implement them.

The recent decision by the Federal Reserve Board to exempt banks with less than $250 billion in assets from the qualitative aspects of the CCAR stress tests may be a sign of things to come, says Joo-Yung Lee, head of North American financial institutions at Fitch Ratings.

Ben Carson is facing a turbulent housing market as he takes the reins of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with mortgage rates rising, inventories tight and home prices higher.

Republicans have opened multiple fronts against the agency, undertaking separate efforts to cut its funding, roll back past and future rules, and make far broader changes.

The current partisan war over the Dodd-Frank Act is just one dispute in a broader ideological divide about the government’s role in industry.

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After questions arose after the 2016 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress test, the Fed said Thursday that it would not object to the bank’s resubmitted capital plan.