A plan released Wednesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was more aggressive than anticipated, leading to share price declines at Synchrony Financial, Capital One and Bread Financial. "This skews toward the worst-case scenario," one analyst wrote.

In a reversal from five years ago, six of the eight biggest U.S. banks by branch count now offer the loans, which observers see as safer alternatives to payday loans.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra plans to propose a rule to set late fees at reasonable levels and no longer peg late fees to inflation.

The scandal's roots stretch back more than a decade. In a corporate environment that doesn't welcome bad news, problems fester.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,  Roger Marshall,  R-Kan., and John Kennedy, R-La., asked Silvergate if the bank knew about FTX's alleged misuse of customer funds.

The bill would lower the number of required meetings for credit union boards of directors, and passed via a voice vote.

Corporate-governance and ethics experts offer tips to avoid management wrongdoing at all levels of a bank.

As the phony-accounts scandal is brewing in 2014, the executive who functions as the top cop inside Wells Fargo gets shown the door.

The giant bank's woes, and punishment, began years ago — and still linger today. Revisiting the saga's origins now yields several important lessons.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data-access rule could create an uneven playing field because banks and credit unions are examined by regulators but hundreds of nonbank fintechs are not.

The current president, Esther George, is set to leave office on Jan. 31. The reserve bank's search committee has no deadline for finding a full-time successor.

A senior Commodity Futures Trading Commission official says the agency needs the power to approve or reject an unregulated company's acquisition of a derivatives exchange.

Banks need to be cautious about negotiating pre-merger Community Benefit Agreements with nationwide activist groups. The deals carry real reputational hazard.

Credit Acceptance Corp., a major name in subprime auto finance, is facing a legal challenge over its lending practices. Some lawyers and analysts say the company's battle with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has broader implications for the rest of the industry.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's decision comes just hours after the Federal Reserve Board of Governors blocked the digital asset bank's bid to become a member bank.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the only solution to avoid a U.S. default crisis is for Congress to increase the federal debt limit, avoiding engaging with other proposed stopgap measures including short-term extensions or spending cuts.

The National Credit Union Administration has held the rate cap for loans issued by federally-chartered institutions in place since 1987, despite recent calls to raise it.

The decision does not end the digital-asset bank's goal of gaining access to the central bank's payment system, but it does make its road to approval more difficult.

It is rare for banks, especially large ones, to receive unsatisfactory ratings in their Community Reinvestment Act examinations. The San Antonio bank has now done it twice in a row.