Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Two Republican senators sent a letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence calling for the removal of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray.
January 10 -
The Dodd-Frank Act is just the latest in a long string of policy out of Washington that harmed the greatest banking system devised by man.
January 10 -
Even in the age of Watson, computers are still only as smart as the people who teach them.
January 9 -
The Federal Housing Administration said it would cut the annual premium by 25 basis points starting on Jan. 27, giving President-elect Donald Trump a limited window to delay or scrap the cut.
January 9 -
Most observers offered a unanimous prediction on the future of the NCUA board, but Trump’s selections to other key financial posts could be just as impactful for credit unions.
January 9 -
In a letter Monday to Comptroller Thomas Curry, Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., registered their strong opposition to the concept of the charter, which would allow certain types of fintech companies to avoid state licensing requirements by obtaining a limited-purpose national bank charter.
January 9 -
The persistent opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — which has been fierce since day one — has been puzzling, and has been cloaked in misleading arguments about the structure of the agency.
January 9 -
Credit union service organizations are required to register annually as part of a rule the regulator approved in 2013.
January 9 -
The dominance of the sector by the Big Four accounting firms poses its own systemic-risk concerns and prompts questions about how other mega-companies are audited.
January 9 -
Joseph Campanelli has run large publicly traded companies such as Sovereign Bancorp and Flagstar, but he seems more energized after agreeing to become CEO of Needham Bank, a depositor-owned mutual in Massachusetts.
January 6 -
The House Financial Services Committee will see a shuffling of deck chairs among the leadership of its subcommittees in the new Congress as it also welcomes ten new Republican members.
January 6 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday announced several changes to its senior management team.
January 6 -
The incoming administration has two vacancies on the Federal Reserve to fill right off the bat, but observers said that who President-elect Donald Trump chooses to fill those slots will be the deciding factor as to whether other board members serve out their terms or create additional vacancies.
January 6 -
Wells Fargo's retail-banking chief will unveil the bank's new compensation plan next week.
January 6 -
Donald Trump's victory is forcing observers to recast predictions for the new year. Following is a guide to which policymakers to watch and who is poised to make the biggest impact in 2017.
January 6 -
American Express has prevailed in its latest round of legal sparring with the Justice Department.
January 6 -
When Diebold wrapped up its $1.8 billion Wincor Nixdorf acquisition last August, there was one asterisk on the deal: The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)—which this week threw a flag on Mastercard’s proposed acquisition of VocaLink—wanted to explore whether the ATM network giants’ merger stifled local competition.
January 6 -
A 2018 deadline to automate government payments is fast approaching. Only with a mix of technology solutions and cooperation among agencies can that deadline be met.
January 6 -
For years, there's been a lot of talk about personal information as an unalloyed asset. But by now it should be clear that the more information a company has about its customers, the bigger a target it is for hackers.
January 5 -
The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Jan. 12 on the nomination of Dr. Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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