Involuntary medical debt continues to impair the credit of an untold number of otherwise creditworthy Americans. Federal courts have left the door open for Congress to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act in a way that would address the problem.

Banks are pushing back on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's draft of a five-year strategic plan, which includes a notable pullback from supervising nonbanks.

U.S. banks must navigate conflicting signals as Iran's crypto toll demands and rising pig butchering scams exploit the same stablecoin and correspondent banking rails.

The Federal Savings Bank in Chicago got hit with a federal consent order after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that the bank blasted veterans with millions of deceptive ads.

The stablecoin provider recently applied for a national trust bank charter from the OCC after acquiring a New York trust charter last year.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency sent an interim final rule to the Office of Management and Budget that would preempt a controversial Illinois state law banning the collection of interchange fees on taxes and tips interchange.

Anthropic's new AI model can autonomously exploit software flaws, prompting urgent security meetings among U.S. and U.K. financial regulators.

The Federal Reserve's initial step toward doing away with paper checks is welcome, but any economy-wide transition must consider the needs of a variety of stakeholders, including many consumers who still rely on them.

The FDIC rescinded guidance that advised charging customers multiple nonsufficient-funds fees for the same transaction could be considered unfair or deceptive.

A trade group representing debt collection agencies alleges that the Golden State is charging unlawfully high licensing fees in an effort to fund an inflated budget. California regulators declined to comment on the suit.

A rule banning bank examiners from using reputational risk in their examinations includes an exception for operational risks — another notoriously unquantifiable category of risk. Experts say the concession suggests the attempt to carve subjectivity out of bank examination may amount to a relabeling exercise.

After a nearly two-decade long "ice age" in which few new banking charters were granted, regulators have shrugged off a zero-failure mentality and are allowing some risk back into the system.

Several major financial institutions last year increased their spending on measures to protect top executives, according to public filings. The moves followed the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024.

The fintech rolled out Intelligent Money Movement, a treasury service that combines payments, liquidity management and disbursements as it looks to capitalize on its multiple banking licenses.

On-chain infrastructure is making idle balances obsolete. The OCC needs to act before banks lose the ability to compete in a market where consumers no longer tolerate below-market-rate returns.

Jay Plum, head of consumer lending at Fifth Third Bank, says artificial intelligence is fundamentally shifting relationships between banks and their third-party software vendors, allowing banks to do things on their own that they would previously rely on vendors to do for them, like identify risky loans and prepare for exams.

The Treasury Department Wednesday proposed a set of rules that would require stablecoin issuers to abide by risk-based anti-money-laundering programs similar to those that banks must employ, as well as secondary market monitoring and independent testing by issuers. 

The FDIC board voted unanimously to issue a proposal putting a rebuttable ban on bank-issuers paying yield on stablecoins, another narrowing AML requirements and a third prohibiting examiners using reputational risk in exams, outside of operational or financial risks.

Jamie Dimon said the revised Basel III plan still overstates risk and penalizes the largest banks.