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Some continue to doubt there will be a premium cut, while others say there's no telling which way Brian Montgomery will go.

The bill aimed at helping struggling homeowners also requires documentation of servicer behavior and FHFA evaluation of the services provided to borrowers.

Though Mick Mulvaney has restarted the agency's data collection process, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner said collecting more information was the key to writing better rules.

The acting director cited the size of advisory boards and some members’ reticence among reasons for his decision.

Months after a group of Democrats helped propel Dodd-Frank reforms forward, the opposition party’s identity crisis on banking policy is still on full display.

The panel will vote on economist Richard Clarida to be vice chairman of the Fed board and Michelle “Miki” Bowman to take a seat designated for a community banking expert.

The appointment of the former top lawyer at Fifth Third Bank rounds out the Trump administration’s picks to run the federal prudential banking agencies.

To improve bank oversight, policymakers should eliminate overly complex rules in favor of principles-based regulation.

A change in House leadership in midterms would slow down regulatory relief initiatives and put more heat on Trump-appointed regulators.

A change in House leadership in midterms would slow down regulatory relief initiatives and put more heat on Trump-appointed regulators.

There’s renewed focus on the relative importance that capital and liquidity should play in regulation, but the discussion misses another measure that should rank higher in bank evaluations.

Bankers to British royalty are not so decorous. Aussies play the (gender) blame game, after AMP fiasco. NYSE's Stacey Cunningham could be standing on a cliff. And, what’s with the men of "Arrested Development"?

Montgomery was confirmed by the Senate 74-23 to serve his second stint at the FHA, where he previously was commissioner during the George W. Bush administration.

The Justice Department announced this month that it would seek to reduce duplicative penalties against banks, although more reforms are needed to rein in other agencies.

A new FDIC chair could be confirmed as early as this week, but the current head of the agency is reportedly Democrats' choice to serve as vice chairman.

Banks were helped by better loan spreads thanks to higher net interest margins, but the recently enacted tax cut helped boost profits by 27% from a year earlier.

The CEO of Iowa's largest credit union suspects a rider attached to a budget bill before the state's legislature was inserted to "placate bankers" after the recent failure of a move to tax CUs there.

With Congress set to approve a regulatory relief bill and vote on an FDIC chairman, banks will soon see the deregulation they’ve long been anticipating.

JPMorgan Chase’s Thasunda Duckett is living her ancestors’ wildest dreams; Morgan Stanley could take a lesson from Citi on reining in rainmakers; and Jelena McWilliams faces tough choices at the FDIC. Plus, babysitting gets approved as a new type of campaign expense.

A recent Washington Post investigation revealed that J. Mark McWatters runs the National Credit Union Administration from his home in Dallas, raising questions about his being tapped to head the consumer agency.