Enforcement

Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions R-Ala., could pose a roadblock for marijuana businesses seeking financial services, but might also end a controversial Justice Department program targeting payment processors and financial institutions.

Wells Fargo has separated the roles of chairman and CEO and, as annual meeting season approaches, other large and regional banks could find themselves under pressure to follow suit.

A California consumer group on Thursday urged the Senate Finance Committee to delay Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin's nomination hearing after a leaked 2013 memo described alleged illegal foreclosure practices at OneWest Bank when he was chairman and CEO.

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of well-known Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission was a relatively safe move that suggests his other financial appointments may be equally conservative, industry observers said.

The current single-director leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not a recipe for transparency and accountability. Creating a multimember commission to oversee the agency is the answer.

OptimumBank in Plantation, Fla., has been hit with an enforcement action due to concerns about its asset quality, capital position, compliance with anti-money-laundering regulations and other issues.

With the change in administration and more friendly economic conditions, policymakers should consider greater balance between principles- and rules-based approaches.

Deutsche Bank AG will have to clear a lower capital hurdle next year, joining other European lenders who are benefiting from a change in how the European Central Bank sets the requirements.

At a time when individual accountability at corporations is mounting, here is how compliance officers can detect and prevent fraud occurrences within their own firms.

A former senior teller at Exchange National Bank & Trust in Atchison, Kan., has been sentenced to prison time and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to an embezzlement scheme.

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened retaliatory tariffs on China if they cheat on their trading obligations. A good place to start would be China’s payment card market.

The Federal Reserve Board has banned two former Regions Financial executives from the banking industry following their indictment on charges of defrauding the Birmingham, Ala., company.

Flagstar Bancorp in Troy, Mich., said that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has terminated its 2012 consent order with its Flagstar Bank on Monday.

Two former executives of the failed GulfSouth Private Bank in Destin, Fla., and another man have been indicted on federal charges of defrauding the Troubled Asset Relief Program of $7.5 million.

Deutsche Bank may reach a deal as early as Wednesday to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that it misled investors when selling mortgage-backed securities, Reuters reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday said Moneytree Inc. mislead consumers about the price of its check-cashing services, falsely threatened to repossess vehicles and withdrew funds from consumers' accounts without authorization.

Popular Inc. in San Juan, Puerto Rico, will absorb another hit to its earnings tied to a dispute with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

A former director at Pinnacle Financial Partners who pleaded guilty to insider trading agreed to pay a heftier fine after a judge rejected the initial penalty as being too low.

While other banking laws may be headed to the chopping block, the Community Reinvestment Act can address the needs of communities defined by their economic struggles.

Despite gains for the legalization effort in the November election, the disconnect between federal and state law preserves uncertainty for banks catering to pot businesses.