The FDIC is taking important steps to undo the damage caused by Operation Choke Point — but fraud prevention company Early Warning apparently didn’t get the memo.

American Express rules barring businesses from asking customers to use lower-cost credit cards violate U.S. antitrust law, a federal judge found.

Visa Inc. has opted to transfer its card transaction processing in Russia to a local payment system rather than pay a security deposit to do business in the country.

Plenty of card issuing institutions have not fully implemented the EMV technology and will not be ready by the card network-imposed October liability shift.

Despite the pending October liability shift, there are many small and mid-sized merchants and merchant service providers that are only starting to learn about the EMV standard and beginning implementation project plans.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators extended the deadline for three nonbank firms considered "systemically important" to submit their revised resolution plans, also known as living wills.

Regulators have long worried about the risks from the underwriting of leveraged loans, but they are now concerned about the potential for broader economic risk from losses on such loans.

Foreclosures and delinquencies may seem like problems from the past, but servicers are still struggling with a massive backlog of distressed loans and a return to normalcy is at least two years away, if not longer.

HSBC has spent billions of dollars in compliance and legal costs, but the damaging scandals keep coming. Renewed attention on the problems at its Swiss private bank could fuel the debate about whether banks this size are too big to manage.

Big banks have only grown larger and more complex since the financial crisis, and there is reason to doubt the efficacy of measures aimed at preventing the risk of another taxpayer bailout.

The confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch suggested a shift in legislators' attitudes toward banks. Rather than the usual focus on banks' alleged misdeeds, lawmakers cast them as victims of government overreach in Operation Choke Point.

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A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

The Ohio Department of Commerce announced that Robert W. Rutkowski has been named deputy superintendent for credit unions. Rutkowski will begin serving his new post Feb. 23.

A recent research paper found that community banks' assets, along with market share in most types of commercial lending, have fallen since the Dodd-Frank Act was passed. The report is giving advocates of smaller institutions more data to rally around.

Fidelity Investments and Federated Investors are walking clients through major changes in the $2.7 trillion money fund business as banks fear another blow to funding.

In a wide-ranging interview, the head of the Cleveland Fed talks about her support for a two-tiered regulatory system, the biggest threats facing the system, interest-rate risk, culture and cybersecurity.

Gary Patton Hall Jr. hid underperforming and at-risk loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the bank's loan committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in its indictment Thursday.

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced release dates for its 2015 stress test results.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said small financial institutions have continued to be profitable despite new rules under the Dodd-Frank Act while raising fresh warnings about unnecessary changes to the financial reform law in the guise of regulatory relief.