Risk management

New York Fed researchers found that banks operating in areas hit by tornadoes, floods and other calamities weren’t financially hurt by those disasters. That surprising result comes with significant caveats, however.

Home prices have increased at their fastest rate since the mid-2000s housing boom and driven skyrocketing inflation. Fed Gov. Christopher Waller says lenders are better prepared for a shock than in 2007 but still need to be monitored — especially nonbank lenders.

House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters has asked more than 30 trade associations, including banking groups, to describe how their members — company by company — have limited or ended their dealings in Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.

Credit Agricole has suspended its activities in Russia, joining a growing list of lenders scaling back their business in the country after the invasion of Ukraine.

European bank regulators are set to start work later this year on adding climate-change risks to the framework for setting capital requirements, in a shift that would penalize lenders for failing to prepare for losses from extreme weather and the shift to clean energy.

Sanctions imposed over the Ukraine war prompted the French bank to tell commercial clients it won't process their Russian transactions after March.

Banks across Europe and the U.S. committed to lend tens of billions of dollars for leveraged buyouts and acquisitions. Now they need to find buyers for the debt, and demand is relatively weak.

The Cincinnati bank and two payments companies have reached an agreement with merchants in California who accused them of illegally recording customer-service calls. The deal must still be approved by a federal judge.

Gauntlet, a financial-risk modeling platform for crypto lending, raised a new round of funding that pushed its valuation to $1 billion.

European banks operating in Russia are preparing to separate those business from their main computer systems to reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks following the invasion of Ukraine.

Citigroup, the U.S. bank with the largest presence in Russia, will broaden its withdrawal beyond previously announced plans to dispose of consumer operations there.

Deutsche Bank reversed course and is now joining Wall Street banks Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase in pulling back from business in Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Thousands of staff, billions of dollars and three decades of complicated relationships. Some of the world’s largest banks are starting to pull back from Russia, but it’s not going to be easy.

Chicago Title Insurance Co. and Chicago Title Co. LLC agreed to the payment to resolve a lawsuit brought by the bank, which said the firms had helped orchestrate a borrowing scam involving liquor licenses, according to a regulatory filing.

While most banks are afraid to touch cannabis business until federal regulations are put in place, some are turning to fintech to automate compliance until then.

Last year, just 30% of small-business owners received the total funding they were seeking, down from 51% just two years earlier, according to a new Federal Reserve survey. The findings suggest that two years into the pandemic, banks are having a difficult time assessing risk.

Adrienne Harris said the New York State Department of Financial Services will concentrate more on issues that have a big impact on people’s pocketbooks. The agency announced a move Monday that will likely save money for consumers who rely on check cashers.

Minnesota Bank & Trust dropped Mike Lindell as a customer after the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed the Trump supporter's telephone records. But its rationale for doing so needed more explanation.

Only 12% of large and regional banks in the U.S. and Canada are running the scenario analyses that regulators are poised to recommend, according to a new survey. Observers say progress has been faster on the other side of the Atlantic, as European banks and their regulators have moved more quickly to develop a uniform system for quantifying risks.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said it’s too early to contemplate adjusting capital requirements for U.S. banks based on how much risk they face from climate change.