Financial institutions

The decisions by JPMorgan Chase, Fifth Third and other banks to keep subprime auto lending in check look wise after new delinquency data from the New York Fed.

Some regulators have begun to acknowledge that it's time to rethink the regulatory system put in place in the wake of the financial crisis, while others are raising warnings about weakening safeguards.

President-elect Donald Trump recognizes that full repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act is unlikely, though he supports a House effort to make significant changes, according to a former banker who was on the shortlist to be Treasury secretary.

For its commitment to improving the long-term health of depositors, and a nimble, failure-is-not-a-dirty-word approach to innovation, USAA has earned an honor American Banker normally bestows on a single individual.

CAN Capital said Tuesday that CEO Daniel DeMeo has been placed on a leave of absence. Parris Sanz, the company's chief legal officer, is now serving as acting CEO.

Whether banks view them as rivals or partners, fintech firms' rising influence is prompting banks to make a host of welcome changes, including heavy recruitment of young, tech-savvy professionals, according to heads of several major U.S. banks.

WASHINGTON – The House is expected to vote on a bill this week that would change the way banks are designated as systemically important and subjected to tougher regulatory requirements.

With the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. and an increasingly isolationist mood pervading European banking regulators, the international Basel III accords that underpinned much of the global post-crisis regulatory framework face an uncertain future.

The president-elect could take aim at the Federal Reserve's ties to Wall Street, bailout authority and other reforms if he really means to take steps to help working people.

The election results will only intensify factors making competition with bank lenders more difficult, including the effect of interest rates as well as the regulatory environment.

Payday lenders are seeking a court injunction to stop what they say is a concerted effort by federal banking regulators to cut them off from the mainstream financial system.

The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank was already under pressure to replace outgoing president Dennis Lockhart with a person of color – preferably the first African-American to head a Fed bank. But the election of Donald Trump has compounded the importance of the pick.

If President-elect Donald Trump selects House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling as his Treasury secretary, it would be a clear sign that he intends to embrace a more traditional Republican agenda when it comes to financial services issues.

The megabanks that emerged relatively unscathed from the crisis are cited as proof of universal banking's benefits, but recent events have debunked that claim.

Employees at the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research have raised concerns about racial discrimination and dysfunction at the agency, according to internal documents and videos posted online.

Global banking regulators said some U.S. lenders present a bigger risk to the financial system than last year and should face stiffer capital requirements to ward off threats.

Politicians clamoring for the largest U.S. institutions to be broken up have failed to consider the prospect of China acquiring a bigger piece of the American banking system.

For all of the sophisticated ways criminals might try to launder money, banks still need to defend against low-tech methods that aren’t easy to track.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has promised to serve out her term heading the central bank until it expires in 2018, ending speculation that she could resign earlier and give President-elect Donald Trump another important appointment to make when he assumes office in January.

A long-awaited report by the Federal Reserve’s Office of Inspector General found “significant variability” between regional banks’ willingness to consider dissenting supervisory views, and said the challenges facing the New York Fed are especially daunting.