Law and regulation

Wintrust Financial in Rosemont, Ill., has agreed to buy another failed bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Two former executives at Washington Mutual, who paid fines to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last year for the thrift's "reckless" lending practices, plot their next move.

Tucked away in Sheila Bair's new book are several interesting anecdotes, including a discussion with President Obama about foreclosure prevention, banking and books on Air Force One.

A Virginia man allegedly impersonated a CIA official in an effort to recruit accomplices in a scheme to extort money from three banks.

As the Financial Stability Oversight Council took another step Friday toward designating certain nonbank firms as systemically important, speculation is growing over what firms it will target.

For only the second time in its history, the Federal Reserve Board on Friday publicly revealed the names of financial institutions that borrowed at the discount window.

Roma Financial Corp. (ROMA) said that one of its banks has entered into a written agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

There will be some complex decisions for those involved in Tarp situations, particularly with regard to banks that are likely to fail if they are not acquired or recapitalized. Here’s what to consider before you make them.

The CFPB flexes its muscle in a Discover deal, Sheila Bair blasts a double standard for hurting small banks and mortgage settlement overseer Joe Smith weighs in on progress to date.

Both the generalized Democratic mantra that the Dodd-Frank Act is inviolable and the Republican mantra to repeal Dodd-Frank are untenable.

A provision within the hotly contested settlement between merchants and credit card networks could potentially slow PayPal’s bid to become more widely accepted at grocery stores, restaurants and other retailers.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner asked the Financial Stability Oversight Council to take up structural reforms to the $2.6 trillion money market mutual fund industry, citing the Securities and Exchange Commission's failure to act.

A bipartisan group of 53 senators is calling on banking regulators to consider the impact that proposed Basel III capital standards will have on community banks.

Banks are growing increasingly worried that the failure to stem impending tax hikes and steep budget cuts could reduce lending demand, savage profits and cripple M&A activity.

The market for discount notes of the Federal Home Loan Banks represents an adequate Libor replacement since, in addition to meeting other criteria, yields on its securities are the result of actual arm's length transactions with some 80 approved debt underwriters worldwide.

The Fed had reached the agreements in 2010 with America's Community Bank in Blue Springs, Mo., and First Capital West Bankshares in Laramie, Wyo.

Bankers “wake up in the middle of the night” worrying about data breaches in the U.S. payment system, a Citigroup executive said this week.

The inspector general for the FHFA found no evidence that Freddie Mac discouraged homeowners from refinancing their mortgages to profit from an exotic form of interest rate hedging.

Servicers reported a significant increase in the number of new loan modification trial plans in the second quarter, due mostly to the $25 billion mortgage settlement, OCC officials say.

Goldman Sachs (GS) will pay $12 million to settle charges it made undisclosed contributions to a former Massachusetts state treasurer in violation of "pay-to-play" rules.