Law and regulation

Cross River Bank, which processes payments and funds loans for fintech startups, says that if such firms got a federal charter, it could help them another way: teaching them compliance.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to finalize its rulemaking on arbitration in early 2017, though it is unclear if the controversial regulation can be completed before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

And that was only the beginning. Bank CEOs speaking in New York provided a long list of financial reforms that they would like to see under the incoming Trump administration.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director Richard Cordray are on a collision course with President-elect Donald J. Trump in what could become a legal showdown over the limits to executive power.

Although he has since walked back his original pledge to deport 11 million people, if President-elect Donald Trump attempts to fulfill his campaign promise, the damage to the housing industry would be substantial.

Rather than address systemic risk with impractical capital requirements, regulators can make a few subtle changes that will force the shrinkage of the largest banks gradually over time.

Large financial services firms are right to fight data-aggregation access, but they'll lose this fight to arguments based on innovation and "inclusion" if they do not quickly enhance their own value proposition.

Banks and credit unions in California plan to participate in a new working group that will focus on the cannabis industry's lack of access to the mainstream financial system, according to state officials.

While the designation of the retired neuroscientist Ben Carson to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development appears to be an unusual choice, lenders are hoping he can bring a fresh perspective to the industry.

In a wide-ranging interview with American Banker, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester talks about what should be kept in the push to deregulate banking regulation, as well as her view on reforming the Fed, ending "too big to fail," the future of Basel and the effect of a Trump administration on financial services.