The Bank for International Settlements' Innovation Hub is doing important work on integrating new technology into the global financial system. The next step is to bring both banks and nonbanks into the discussion.

Banking experts said that none of the currently circulating stablecoin proposals adequately address concerns about the overlap between banking and commerce and how a stablecoin issuer would go through insolvency.

The Federal Housing Administration also instituted a new language preference requirement that servicers must observe in transfers.

At an industry conference, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said he was open to suggestions on how to increase choice and competition to benefit mortgage lenders and borrowers.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr Monday spoke at length about efforts to enhance banks' liquidity and long-term debt positions after last year's bank failures while saying little about the capital hikes in the embattled interagency Basel III endgame proposal.

Earlier in the day, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, called on the White House to name a successor for Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg.

A recommendation to give Ginnie Mae expanded authorities is drawing focus in the reactions to a Financial Stability Oversight Council report on nonbank risks.

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Friday that the agency will be moving forward with rules and enforcement actions after the defeat of a Supreme Court challenge to the agency's constitutionality.

The House Financial Services Committee passed eleven bills, including a Democratic-sponsored bill on homeless veteran housing and a Republican-led package on bank regulation.

The agency seeks the public's thoughts on how the regulatory statement governing FHLBanks could better reflect the part they play in housing finance.