Risk management

The question of what banks are doing to aid government workers shows how the industry is still struggling to rebuild its image following the crisis.

Seventy-eight percent of global banks now use regulatory stress tests to assess concentrations and set limits internally, according to a Deloitte survey to be released Wednesday. That's up from 67% in 2012. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they use capital stress tests for strategy and business planning, up from 68%.

Fragmented and manual AML processes pose a challenge to many institutions, contends Edmund Tribue, risk and regulatory practice leader for NTT.

The revised recommendations are one of the last remaining pieces left to finish in the Basel III capital accords.

The post-Dodd-Frank era is one of rightsizing and tailoring rules, but a key bloc of the regulatory brain trust believes the U.S. still lacks mechanisms that could prove helpful in a crisis.

Bank portfolios are chock full of loans to industries — think agriculture, tourism, real estate and energy — that could be particularly hard hit by warming temperatures. Some large banks are engaging in "scenario analysis" to mitigate the risk.

Linda Levy, CEO of Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union, has no regrets about suing President Trump when he appointed Mick Mulvaney to run the CFPB, despite some negative reactions from her credit union colleagues.

As more states permit medical or recreational use, and legal uncertainty persists at the federal level, CUs' decision whether to do business with marijuana firms is trickier than ever.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called top executives from the six largest U.S. banks over the weekend, he said Sunday on Twitter, a move that followed heavy losses in the stock market last week and a partial federal government shutdown.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has proposed barring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from using credit scores developed by VantageScore over concern about conflicts of interest with the joint venture of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.