Financial institutions

The revisions would emphasize activities-based regulation over labeling individual firms as systemically risky.

The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to keep the countercyclical capital buffer at its current level of zero, ending some speculation that the board could be looking at a possible increase.

The central bank is limiting the use of its qualitative objection in this year’s stress tests, the agency announced Wednesday.

After converting to a mutual savings bank in 2013, the former CU is set to become a fully stock-owned company.

By applying to become an industrial loan company, the fintech would be able to use insured deposit accounts as a cheap source of funding without having to comply with the tough rules banks face.

The interagency panel formed to head off approaching systemic risks must figure out its next move after having undone designations of nonbank firms.

The former credit union will shed its mutual status when it becomes a fully stock-owned company.

The biggest U.S. bank says it will break off its relationship with the private-prison industry after deciding it's too risky.

Gulf Atlantic Bank would be the eighth bank in the market, and just the second with local ownership.

The banks have no choice but to pick a new name, marketing experts say, but good luck: The best ones may already be taken, made-up names can sound forced, and any change might nudge more customers to rethink their loyalties.