Law and regulation

Several political candidates have begun accepting bitcoins for campaign contribution—but the future of this practice hinges on a Federal Election Commission decision coming by October 28.

Credit card issuers are charging less in penalties and disclosing previously hidden fees, but the CFPB still has concerns about deceptive add-on products and deferred interest rate specials.

The $18 billion-asset company said late Tuesday it has acquired certain assets and liabilities from Surety Financial Services in Sherman Oaks, Calif. The companies did not disclose the terms or specify the assets that were transferred.

The $2 billion-asset company said Tuesday that it had fully redeemed the $20.5 million in preferred shares issued through the program. Park Sterling funded the redemption with a payment from its bank.

Although American Banker's Editor-at-Large Barbara Rehm believes the implementation of Dodd-Frank is taking too long, enough people have told her otherwise, so she presents our readers with the counter-argument.

James Mackey will become executive vice president and CFO of the government-sponsored enterprise the week of Nov. 11, Freddie announced Monday.

Carol Galante, the Federal Housing Administration's commissioner, sought to clarify the agency's plans for a government shutdown on Tuesday, emphasizing that it will continue to endorse single-family loans during the shutdown in contrast to earlier reports.

Under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, regulators have the authority to apply tighter regulations on firms that pose a significant threat to the financial system-and they are doing just that with asset management firms.

Timothy Pawlenty, president and chief executive of the Financial Services Roundtable, said Tuesday that housing finance reform is unlikely to pass until after the 2014 mid-term elections.

The largest banks have begun submitting a second round of plans to regulators outlining how they could be safely taken apart if they fail.

Internet-based, short-term lenders have various routes for setting up business, but most of their options expose them to potential legal challenges.

A federal court has ruled that state regulators have the authority over online lenders that operate from Native American land.

In a little-noticed agreement with Wells Fargo, the Office of Foreign Assets Control raised the bar on acceptable checking practices and potentially exposed many other financial institutions to penalties.

Editor-at-Large Barbara A. Rehm has argued for months that Dodd-Frank implementation should be sped up so banks can know the rules they face. A slew of sources disagree – here’s why.

New York's top banking overseer said any regulation of the nascent Bitcoin industry has to include transparency on who does the trading of the virtual currency, and if that hurts a business dominated by anonymous transactions, "so be it."

Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), the largest U.S. home lender, agreed to an $869 million settlement with Freddie Mac to resolve repurchase claims on faulty loans sold to the government-backed firm before Jan. 1, 2009.

The fate of the Dodd-Frank Act's ban on banks trading for their own accounts — one of the final pieces of the U.S. effort to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis — may rest with a cluster of economists at the SEC.

Because third-party processors are on the hook for losses from fraudulent transactions, they have as much interest in eliminating bad actors as anyone.

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators are considering tightening regulation of asset management firms that oversee trillions of dollars, according to a new report by the Office of Financial Research released Monday.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday issued its own proposed rule defining what constitutes a "qualified mortgage," that has two exceptions to the existing QM rule finalized earlier this year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.