Financial reform

From chairing a panel charged with replacing Libor to advising the president and Congress on regulatory reform, JPMorgan Chase's chief regulatory affairs officer has emerged as a leading voice on fine-tuning crisis-era rules.

Sound Community Bank CEO Laura Lee “Laurie” Stewart has made a career of going against the grain, and her bank’s investors, employees and customers are all better for it.

The nominations of Randal Quarles as Federal Reserve Board vice chairman and Joseph Otting as comptroller of the currency will now head to the full Senate.

Financial regulation is too complex and needs to be retooled to improve access to credit, President Trump’s nominees to two top banking regulators told Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Readers weigh in on the in-store branch model, how community banks hone their message, the difficulty cash-strapped consumers face in finding bank loans, and more.

In the end, many of the reforms designed to protect the global financial system and leading global economies from future crises could be erased.

A top Trump administration official on Thursday vowed to roll back FDIC powers to seize and unwind a failing megabank.

The House Financial Services Committee approved the Financial Choice Act by 34 to 26. While it has enough support to clear the GOP-controlled House, it is unlikely to gain traction in the Senate.

In November 1999, we covered the repeal of a Depression-era banking law in the style of an obituary. It seemed unthinkable that today we'd be talking about a resurrection.

Some shareholders can help increase corporate accountability using a little-known but effective tool called a shareholder proposal. But now this tool is threatened by financial reform legislation.

A Senate Republican effort to use an obscure process to restructure the CFPB could derail any bipartisan agreement on targeted changes to the Dodd-Frank Act.

With slim odds of getting eight Democrats to support major Dodd-Frank Act reforms, Republicans are turning to other measures to make changes to the 2010 reform law.

Richard Hunt of the Consumer Bankers Association on reg reform, the chances for a Durbin rollback and more.

Republicans repeatedly claim that the Dodd-Frank Act has hurt consumers by raising costs and hampering credit availability. But the data doesn't back that up.

It's hard enough lobbying for big changes on Capitol Hill, but sometimes it only gets harder when it comes time to actually implement them.

In President Trump’s first joint address to Congress, he listed several top priorities, including repealing Obamacare and enacting tax reform, but made no mention of reforming the Dodd-Frank Act.

In an exclusive American Banker poll, bankers see President Trump as a positive force for the financial services industry and are optimistic his administration can deliver on CFPB reform and simpler capital rules.

Congressional Republicans are weighing potentially broad changes to the stress test program, including alterations to the way the tests are performed and the consequences of failing them.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday requiring every agency to establish a task force focused on eliminating unnecessary regulations.

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, the chairman of the House financial institutions subcommittee, said Wednesday that he plans to reintroduce a bill that would change the way banks are designated as systemically important.