Any comprehensive overhaul of the Federal Home Loan Bank System will have to navigate a dense thicket of countervailing regulatory and stakeholder priorities.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler told lawmakers that artificial intelligence could be used to game securities transactions in favor of corporate interests over those of investors. Critics say the SEC's plan to combat such conflicts of interest is hostile to technology.

The securities have been hard to sell in part because the bonds will probably pay below-market coupons for years.

Franklin Templeton has joined fellow asset manager powerhouses Fidelity and BlackRock in the race to win approval to offer the first U.S. exchange-traded fund that invests directly in bitcoin. 

The proposed rule would make it virtually impossible for lenders to enter into routine hedging transactions.

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau defended the agency and its mortgage rules in particular on the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

The Department of Health and Human Services' recommendation to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III substance has sparked renewed interest in cannabis banking reforms in Congress, but in itself will do little to make banking cannabis businesses easier.

Brokered deposits had nothing to do with this year's bank failures, and regulators shouldn't pretend otherwise.

A district court judge ruled that Congress did not give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau broad authority to look for discrimination, putting a major dent into the bureau's efforts to apply anti-discrimination principles to non-lending products such as advertising.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. acknowledges in a new report that it didn't adequately monitor First Republic Bank's uninsured deposits, interest rate risk sensitivity and rapid growth — and as a result left the bank vulnerable to contagion.

The Federal Reserve Board's vice chair for supervision called for the creation of a legislative and regulatory framework for overseeing dollar-pegged digital assets.

The Federal Reserve governor said the "risks and tradeoffs" associated with private and sovereign digital currencies need to be weighed carefully.

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wants to ensure that Big Tech firms are not unfairly excluding smaller fintechs from innovating on their platforms.

The World Bank director and former top Labor Department economist will become the first Fed governor of Hispanic descent and will give the board a full compliment of members since former vice chair Lael Brainard resigned in February.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s second-quarter report on the state of banking noted that while banks are enjoying strong profits, they face declining deposits, rising unrealized losses and shrinking net interest margins.

The consumer lender's stock price has fallen more than 30% since its disclosure of a looming regulatory action, which was followed by the sudden departure of its CEO. To help meet its compliance challenges, the company's board added a former FDIC regional director.

With economic storm clouds gathering, Canada's bank regulator is considering stricter capital requirements that some analysts say have the potential to force Royal Bank of Canada, the nation's biggest lender, to sell equity.

Philip Jefferson was the Biden administration's pick for the Fed's number two position following the departure of Lael Brainard earlier this year. Two more Fed nominees are expected to get confirmation votes this week.

A member of the European Central Bank's board said private sector digital coins like PayPal's could harm competitive balance, Santander makes candy harts with romance scam slogans, and more.

From hidden fees to misleading marketing, small businesses face too many challenges when making and receiving cross-border payments.