Law and regulation

The FDIC's return to black has led to calls for banks to get back some of the prepayments they made into the agency's Deposit Insurance Fund.

Every time it seems Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is about to step down, rumors that Jamie Dimon may take his place gain traction.

Is she or isn't she? Elizabeth Warren gave her strongest indication yet that she's planning a Senate run with a posting Thursday on the liberal Massachusetts blog Blue Mass Group.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has appointed a former project director from the Pew Charitable Trusts as deputy comptroller.

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shut $538.1 million-asset First National Bank of Olathe in Kansas, the first failure in the state this year, bringing the total number of collapses in the country to 64.

Banking companies that received rescue capital from the government and fall behind on payments have trouble getting out of the hole.

The Obama administration faces reputational and practical problems if it rents out foreclosed homes as part of its new efforts to unload the backlog of real-estate owned properties held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Federal Reserve's vow to keep interest rates low for another two years has taken a number of bankers by surprise.

A pair of banking companies said Friday that they have been approved for participating the in the Small Business Lending Fund and plan to use the funds to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Office of Financial Research said Friday it had delayed plans to issue a rule requiring financial firms to use a legal entity identifier when they report data to the OFR.

Efforts to crack regulators' code are varied but may be close to the mark.

One year following the implementation of Reg E – opt-in for debit card and ATM overdrafts – and 77% of checking account users have given consent.

Some of the new red tape was supposed to drive deals, but it could dry up M&A among banks near $50 billion of assets.

Banks have struggled for years to get their customers to accept paperless account statements. But even among those who have succeeded in such efforts, paper use has risen.

Barack Obama has missed his chance to see a director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau take office within his first term as president.

Regulators should be aware of the role banks play in steering these products into pension, endowment and foundation portfolios.

The reality is sinking in.

Market volatility is fueling fears of a large institution collapse, but regulators are unlikely to act unless the situation gets a lot worse.

WASHINGTON — A panel of House members will meet next week in Georgia, the epicenter of bank failures nationwide, for a hearing on whether bank examiners have become overly strict.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., named three Democrats to the Joint Select Deficit Committee on Thursday, finalizing the list of 12 lawmakers who will try to reduce the budget deficit by $1.5 trillion this fall.