Law and regulation

Heightened regulation is forcing more bank buyers to overhaul their entire computer platform as regulators zero in on a greater need for compliance.

A new Nevada law has gummed up the works of banks seeking to process foreclosures in the state, causing Bank of America and other major players to all but halt new foreclosure starts.

Skip Humphrey, the head of the CFPB's Office for Older Americans talks about elder financial abuse, coordinating protections for seniors, being an older American himself and what banks can do to reach out to older customers.

MSNBC has unearthed a leaked memo from a Washington lobbying firm proposing to the American Bankers Association that it develop a "response" to Occupy Wall Street costing $850,000.

In the last three months of 2010, banks, credit unions and other lenders made $12 billion of Small Business Administration-backed loans, the most in any quarter in the SBA's history and more than double the volume in any quarter over the last four years.

Watchdog agency says 125 alleged schemes have been shut down through partnering with online search sites.

Banks and others involved in buying and selling loans have won some battles and lost others relating to Dodd-Frank implementing rules. The next fight is over how tough to treat the cash-loan market.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will present a broad picture Tuesday morning of how banks and thrifts fared in the third quarter.

While B of A nips and tucks as it struggles to meet new capital requirements, JPMorgan Chase bemoans the severity of the rules from a position of relative strength, and hints at the rationale for the behemoths to dismantle themselves.

Regent Asset Management Solution Inc., based in Denver, and CEO Michael Scata must pay the state of Colorado $70,000 in civil penalties for alleged violations of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.

WASHINGTON — Regulators closed a bank in Louisiana, and another in Iowa, late Friday to bring the year’s failure total to 90.

The FDIC finished first among large federal agencies in the Partnership for Public Service's 2011 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government survey, with an employee satisfaction rating of 85.9 out of 100.

On Nov. 14 the president announced plans to appoint Janie Barrera and Sherry Salway Black to his Advisory Council on Financial Capability.

Newt Gingrich is surging in Republican presidential polls, but he was still thrown last week by a tough question at a recent debate from CNBC's John Harwood.

As in other East Coast cities, residents of the capital have had to adapt to a growing chill in the air. But the change was a little more abrupt for those at Thursday's nomination hearing for the Senate Banking Committee.

Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney team up on a measure that would give banks the right to appeal examination decisions.

Republican Scott Brown tapped into anger with Washington to capture a U.S. Senate seat in 2010. Elizabeth Warren, a consumer advocate and Harvard law professor, is wagering on public disgust with Wall Street to help Democrats win it back in 2012

Consumer groups are banding together to urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to require prepaid debit card issuers to provide consumers with the same mandatory protections that come with traditional debit cards under Regulation E of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act.

Addressing the home mortgage meltdown, Congressman Scott Garrett recently introduced legislation that is, as American Banker put it, "designed to draw the private sector back to the secondary-mortgage market after the troubled GSEs are terminated."

Banks, the FDIC, and insurers are set to fight over whether the vague terms of director & officer liability insurance put insurers on the hook for FDIC claims against failed bank execs.