Regulation

t's no grace period, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working placate lender fears of hasty enforcement of its new integrated disclosure rules.

The "too big to fail" problem can't be solved with living wills and orderly liquidation. Rather, a structural solution is needed to reduce the size of mega-institutions.

Community bankers are up in arms after one of the largest core processors told institutions it will likely raise costs because of a data collection effort undertaken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

As the first legal briefs are filed in MetLife's challenge to FSOC's decision to designate the life insurance giant as systemically risky, the interagency council and outsiders are pointing to the high bar the company has to clear to convince the court to overturn the decision.

FICO discards incomplete and old credit history information for a good reason. The solution to today's credit-access problems is not to use this unreliable data but to turn to alternative data such as the payment of everyday bills.

Access to credit is too tight. But new credit-scoring models could increase the number of eligible borrowers in the U.S. without weakening today’s underwriting parameters.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sharply criticized Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White on Tuesday, asking for details about the agency's enforcement actions and the implementation of key Dodd-Frank Act rules.

Banks and mortgage lenders are in the final stretch of preparing to deliver new TILA-Respa Integrated Disclosures to homebuyers starting Aug. 1. But it's not just the change of forms that is causing alarm bells. Fines could be steep, and legal liability could be even higher, for violators, while necessary technological changes are expensive, they say.

The structuring law that former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert stands accused of violating highlights how federal prosecutors use the banking system as leverage.

Newly elected Rep. French Hill knows firsthand what it's like to lead a bank through a crisis and implement the sometimes complex rules of Dodd-Frank. That knowledge may prove key as he battles to make regulation simpler for small banks.