Capital requirements

JPM, PNC, Citi and Wells kick off reporting; Senate banking panel members want to know why so many agency staffers are paid so much.

Acting director wants agency run by a bipartisan body, not a lone director; Fed and OCC push for relaxing the supplementary leverage ratio at the biggest banks.

The agencies proposed changes to the way they apply a capital backstop to the largest systemically important firms, replacing a static leverage ratio with a more dynamic ratio that takes each bank’s risk profile into account.

The comptroller said he is looking to capitalize on the industry's strong profits and high capital reserves to reduce costs and lower exam fees next year.

In his last major speech as the agency’s No. 2, Thomas Hoenig said it would be a “serious policy mistake” to relax measures such as the supplementary leverage ratio, but he was more open to regulatory relief in other areas.

There's been a legislative bottleneck since the the crisis-era law went into effect, but Congress has moved forward on a handful of significant changes.

The Senate legislation would weaken scrutiny of large financial institutions, undercutting Dodd-Frank’s mission to provide tailored oversight across the system.

Former CUNA economist Bill Hampel has attended the trade group’s Governmental Affairs Conference for decades, but this year he’ll do so as a Wegner Award winner.

Banks may start paying special dividends now that capital levels have improved.

While small and regional banks are pushing for a rollback of the Dodd-Frank Act, big banks are largely supportive of the 2010 financial reform law, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said Thursday.