The beneficial ownership regulation, meant to catch financial criminals, has produced data that is useful in making small-business loans, LexisNexis Risk Solutions says.

American Banker's Rob Blackwell and Marc Hochstein discuss the pushback from state regulators and consumer advocates against the OCC's proposed charter; Chris Skinner and Jim Marous hold forth on fintech.

In working with correspondent banks in developing countries for more than two decades, INTL FCStone Ltd. spent a fair amount of time collecting market information over the phone and through e-mail from those banks to share with others. It ultimately determined there was a better way to do this.

Sweeping new data-sharing rules require a substantial IT revamp at large financial institutions.

The new Democratic strategy to block GOP Dodd-Frank rewrite is to give it more airtime.

Banking is not a “static” business, and must be allowed to evolve, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said Friday.

The debate over banking policy has tended to leave out all the other factors examiners use to gauge institution strength, therefore sidestepping a comprehensive approach to safety and soundness regulation.

Readers weigh in on Wells Fargo investors reelecting state regulators suing the OCC, Wells Fargo's annual meeting, ultralow interest rates and more.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's upcoming report on how to rewrite financial regulation is likely to end up looking very similar to a Dodd-Frank overhaul plan in the House.

Scott Alvarez, the general counsel of the Federal Reserve, said the Dodd-Frank Act provision that allows regulators to handle the failure of a large financial institution would have been useful during the financial crisis.

Wells Fargo is making big changes in how it deals with lawmakers and regulators in Washington after top executives were savaged during congressional inquiries into the bank's fraudulent-accounts scandal.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling said they believed an agreement on housing finance reform could be struck in this Congress.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued four online tribal lenders on Thursday for illegally collecting debts in 17 states where they are prohibited by state usury or licensing laws.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors has sued the OCC before the agency has finalized the requirements for a fintech charter, fueling speculation state regulators are trying to delay deployment or scare away potential applicants.

In addition to strong membership growth, the CU now boasts $8.1 billion in assets, up by more than 8 percent from last quarter.

Europe's Payment Services Directive, or PSD2, has almost everything a technology vendor would want. It affects an entire continent, and it involves both sweeping new data requirements and a substantial IT revamp for large financial institutions.

Democrats drew a line in the sand Wednesday, opposing a provision in a GOP bill that would allow banks to comply with fewer rules in exchange for holding more capital.

Administration and leaders in Congress support some common principles that could help banks.

Financial services companies and groups are increasingly willing to take the regulatory regime to court in an effort to fight back — and so far, they appear to be succeeding.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered an auto loan servicer on Wednesday to pay $2.4 million for failing to live up to the terms of a 2015 consent order.