Six biggest banks set to return nearly $100 billion to shareholders; Capital One’s plan approved by Federal Reserve, but with conditions.

With lawmakers bracing for a major policy undertaking to reform the government-sponsored enterprises, they can take comfort that they don’t need to start from scratch.

The largest banks announced plans to distribute capital back to shareholders after the Fed gave passing grades to everyone following this year’s CCAR stress tests.

The brief supporting field of membership expansion — in the face of a lawsuit by the American Bankers Association — is a sign of continued collaboration between CUNA and NAFCU.

All 34 banks passed the Fed’s CCAR stress test, fueling industry calls to dial back the intensity of the stress tests. But many of the changes have already been internalized by banks.

The Main Street GSE Reform Coalition offered three principles: creating a capital buffer for Fannie and Freddie, continuing with reforms by their regulator and ending the conservatorship that began in 2008.

Fed chair says post-crisis rules have made financial system safer and shouldn’t be rolled back; Atlanta bank rolls out internal program to other corporations.

The Senate is set to begin teeing up housing finance reform discussions at a Banking Committee hearing on Thursday, but many are skeptical that Congress will be able to succeed where it has failed in the past.

A key question for the future of housing finance is whether large and small lenders will both be able to compete, or will a new system favor Wall Street giants?

The research firm is set to release a report Tuesday that it says previews the results of the Fed’s 2017 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress test results for 16 superregional banks.

Payment companies have lots of emerging regulations. Regtech can bring together different stakeholders to ease compliance.

Financial firms say the database is unreliable and would like to see it removed from public view. But the industry would also lose access to competitive insights that can be gleaned from the massive trove of consumer complaints.

The third conservatorship in as many business days, the $236 million CU is the latest to fall prey to taxi medallion loan problems.

The $201 million-asset CU has seen delinquencies rise from just $1.2 million at the end of 2015 to nearly $11 million at the end of March 2017.

Though regulatory rigor has improved post-crisis, it would be hubris for the Fed to believe it has found a magic formula that will predict with accuracy how any of the big banks will truly perform in the next downturn.

A proposal on the agency’s overhead transfer rate would simplify how state- and federally chartered CUs pay for examinations by evenly splitting the costs of safety-and-soundness and insurance-related concerns.

In his short time in office, acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika has already taken public digs at two other banking agencies and signaled he isn't going to play it safe.

Compliance, security and data analytics were the themes at this year’s New York FinTech Innovation Lab demo day.

A headquarters move to Boston, a core system with plenty of headroom and a CEO who admires big acquirers like M&T and the old Banknorth: All the signs are there of an ambitious bank with a plan.

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