Retail & Commercial

The Federal Housing Administration has joined Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in calling for mortgage lenders to temporarily postpone mortgage payments for furloughed government employees and contractors who have been affected by the shutdown.

KeyCorp's Beth Mooney on what her CEO role symbolizes.

Lifetime Achievement honoree Ellen Alemany notes how the industry has evolved since the start of her career. Alemany, the recently retired head of RBS Citizens Financial Group, accepted the award at an American Banker gala celebrating the industry’s most powerful women.

Regional and community banks are carving out niches as asset managers by offering perks and personal services to affluent customers whom bigger rivals often overlook.

Removing enforcement personnel from exams is just the start to a broad overhaul designed to make the process faster and free up personnel to pursue their own investigations outside of exams, according to Steven Antonakes, the CFPB's No. 2.

A sharper-than-expected decline in third-quarter mortgage revenues at Wells Fargo could spell bad news for other home lenders. The bank eked out another record profit by releasing loan-loss reserves.

Banks are looking to the relative safety and profitability of their wealth management divisions to boost earnings. But with that strategy comes increased regulatory and ethical scrutiny of this business line.

The Fed's Janet Yellen and optimism about the future were hot topics at American Banker's Women in Banking awards dinner on Thursday.

The underlying results of JPMorgan's third quarter were mediocre, even excluding heavy litigation costs. Its loan outlook for the current quarter is unencouraging. Expect a lot of other banks to continue the theme this fall.

Regulators have proposed new rules that would require banks to accept private flood insurance on homes in high-risk areas.