The proposal would bring companies cited for civil enforcement actions under its scope to bar them from doing business with the government-sponsored enterprises.

The FDIC's New York regional office faced staffing shortages throughout its supervision of now-failed Signature Bank. Experts say more competitive wages, culture shifts and whistleblower protections could help regulators attract and retain talent and improve oversight.

Banks say more transparency is needed in the annual scenario testing regime to make capital planning more predictable. But amid a flurry of regulatory reforms, the expectation is that capital requirements are only going up from here.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services released a request for comment on medical debt financing products. At the same time, the White House said that the agencies will explore whether efforts to sign up customers are breaking the law.

The sanctions were in response to violations of laws and regulations in areas including financial consumer protection, payment and settlement business and anti-money laundering obligation in the past years, according to China's central bank.

Under a written agreement, Quontic pledged not to distribute capital without the permission of its regulators. It's the third enforcement action in five years against the small New York-based bank.

Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, has pushed for digital-asset regulation in her home state of Wyoming. Now she's working on a national scale.

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to hold a meeting next week to finalize the changes, which are meant to prevent the kind of outflows that occurred in March 2020 when the onset of the pandemic roiled markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to wipe out $9 billion a year in consumer costs by cutting credit card late fees to just $8. But consumer complaints about late fees remain low, and experts say that's because many first-time late fees are forgiven.

Bank of America has joined rivals in raising its quarterly dividend even though it's in discussions with the Fed to understand differences between the central bank's stress-test assessment of the bank and its own stress tests.

A challenge to the SEC's use of administrative law judges could have big implications for bank regulators. The FDIC, Fed, OCC and CFPB could be forced to go to federal court in cases that would otherwise be handled in-house.

Rising interest rates are putting pressure on multifamily housing borrowers — especially investors who were looking for a quick return.

The Home Loan banks are failing to serve huge numbers of Americans because of their reliance on outdated credit scoring models.

Synthetic fraud — which combines real and false identifying information — has been a niche variety of identity theft for some time. But recent advancements in artificial intelligence and people's access to it might bring it into the mainstream in a big way.

The two companies are questioning the Federal Reserve's projections for their future income, the latest sign of tension around the central bank's annual stress tests.

From his vantage point at the intersection of finance, tech and government, Cohn shares his views the banking crisis, global threats to U.S. competitiveness in tech and the future of the national economy.

California's bid to regulate EWA programs as though they are loans would harm workers, companies and the state's economy.

Higher capital requirements tend to drive certain lending activities away from banking and toward so-called shadow banks. How regulators shore up banks without driving their customers away is the source of a spirited philosophical debate in Washington.

Following regulatory stress tests, three midsize institutions expect to be required to maintain larger stress capital buffers. The reverse is true for four of the nation's largest banks.