Rep. Maxine Waters pressed executives from City National Bank, PNC Financial Services and Wells Fargo on opening branches in her California district and upholding promises made from recent merger agreements or consent orders.

Banking advocates claim FDIC's proposed corporate governance guidelines could undermine their legal duty to shareholders, despite the agency's claim that the proposal wouldn't break new ground.

Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the House and Senate, which already had passed an identical bill, say the data-collection rule would be too onerous for lenders and small-business borrowers. President Biden is expected to veto the legislation.

The Federal Home Loan Bank System is a crucial element of our financial infrastructure. All stakeholders should be included in discussions about reforming it.

The Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision said the central bank is weighing regulatory and supervisory changes to liquidity management standards. Current approaches, he said, might not be able to contend with the speed of modern runs.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said that synthetic risk transfers make it easier for banks to accumulate risk, thereby making them less able to absorb losses in a crisis.

Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Jack Reed and John Fetterman say the revised approach would ensure the risks posed by the nation's largest banks are appropriately addressed. International banks, meanwhile, are concerned about the implications of the change.

During a second day of comparatively mild questioning from lawmakers in semiannual oversight hearings, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said artificial intelligence could exacerbate existing weaknesses in the financial system without tighter protections.

A report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Office of Inspector General identified issues in the regulator's oversight of First Republic Bank.

After nearly a decade of regulatory headaches, Discover Financial Services is looking to sell its private student loan business. Its stock jumped 4% after the news.

In November's roundup of top banking news: Citigroup approaches newest wave of job cuts and managerial shifts, Truist Financial nearly doubles most-senior executive leadership team, JPMorgan Chase faces regulatory inquiries and more.

Brandon Milhorn, former top staffer to FDIC Vice Chairman Travis Hill, has been named president and CEO of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, effective Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that has large stakes for bankers who get into hot water with their regulators. Conservative justices asked tough questions of a Biden administration lawyer who defended agencies' reliance on administrative law judges.

Net income at banks fell 4.6% year over year in the third quarter, though it remained above pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest Quarterly Banking Profile. FDIC Chairman Gruenberg cautioned about deteriorating commercial real estate loans and unrealized losses on securities in a high interest rate enviroment.

The Port Angeles, Washington-based bank said it has already invested "significant resources" into enhancing its compliance management for fintech partnerships, after self-reporting a problem last year.

Australia plans to put Apple Pay and Google Pay under the same rules that apply to credit cards, NatWest is inviting customers into its branches for a tabletop game about the perils of financial scams and more.

The Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision said new definitions around community development activities and the ability for banks to invest outside their immediate assessment areas could be a boon to Native Americans and their communities.

At least 400 loan officers working for Bank of America violated the requirements of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act by failing to collect the race, ethnicity and sex of mortgage applicants and then falsely reporting that the applicants had chosen not to respond, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

A proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to hide medical debt from credit bureaus zeroes in on the unfairness of medical debt, but further reducing credit scores' utility as a proxy for a borrower's ability to repay doesn't do anyone any good.

The Federal Reserve governor was one of two dissenting votes on the proposed capital changes earlier this year, but he said he would be open to backing the package if operational capital changes were made.