Federal banking regulators issued a proposal that would establish standards for states that register and track appraisal management companies.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Friday to employees detailing its diversity statistics and the racial disparities in performance evaluations reported two weeks ago by American Banker.

The Federal Reserve Board revised its findings to the closely watched Dodd-Frank Act stress tests on Friday, citing inconsistencies in the treatment of some figures during its calculations.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently freed 11 banks from regulatory orders.

The banking industry's victory on debit card interchange fees seems likely to be the decisive turn in a high-stakes legal dispute with retailers.

American Express Co. paid Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Chenault $24.4 million for 2013, an 11 percent increase over the previous year.

A federal appeals court panel ruled today that the existing restrictions on debit card swipe fees should largely stand, turning back a challenge by retailers who argued that banks are still earning too much money from the fees.

A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that the existing restrictions on debit card swipe fees should largely stand, turning back a challenge by retailers who argued that banks are still earning too much money from the fees.

The Federal Reserve Board released its second annual round of stress tests mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act on Thursday, providing a glimpse into how the country's biggest firms would fare under a hypothetical economic crisis.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Thursday showing consumers are being "hounded" by debt collectors, adding more fuel to the fire in the agency's efforts to crack down on the industry's bad actors.

The National Credit Union Administration will start fining credit unions that file call reports after the April 25 deadline for the first quarter, an agency spokesman told Credit Union Journal Thursday immediately following the agency's March board meeting.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been calling for eBay to spin off PayPal, is now asking for eBay to conduct a partial initial public offering of the payments processor.

QR codes, which are commonly used in mobile wallets to link to a consumer's payment account, can just as easily link to phishing sites, malware and other nasty surprises.

Discover Financial Services awarded Chief Executive Officer David Nelms a 2013 cash bonus that was 38 percent less than the previous year.

This behind-the-scenes attempt to shut down legal tribal businesses represents a total departure from more than a century of respect for, and engagement with, tribal governments as partners and co-regulators on issues ranging from law enforcement to economic development to education.

MasterCard is requiring acquirers and payment service providers to offer clear fee disclosures as part of an initiative aimed at smaller merchants.

International Bitcoin businesses have been sizing up the African market for some time, but they face massive regulatory hurdles throughout much of the continent.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new examination procedures for mortgage originations include strict quality controls for mortgage documents.

Banks and credit unions are more worried about regulatory and risk management pressures than they were a year ago, according to a new report from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.

Treasury's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group will include a member of the virtual-currency community to help make regulations "better informed and more effective," David S. Cohen, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said today.