BancorpSouth, which had two prior deals delayed over BSA and CRA issues, has agreed to buy a bank in the Houston area.

Financial institutions providing funds via the Fed's same-day ACH transfers need to their systems protect their customers, are commercially reasonable and, most important, follow strictly the protocols the financial institution has agreed to with its customer, writes Alexander Buchanan, counsel at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP.

Many of Treasury’s recommendations for modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act would help financial institutions, not low-income communities.

Insights from the National Association of Credit Union Service Organizations' 2018 conference, taking place this week at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif.

Online banks have good reason for wanting regulators to update the 41-year-old Community Reinvestment Act.

The Consumer Bankers Association on Wednesday asked lawmakers to rein in regulations that were meant to prevent robocalls but that the group says have inadvertently captured legitimate calls.

Passage of a resolution blocking guidance on auto loan pricing could set a precedent that allows Congress to nullify other long-past regulatory issuances.

NAFCU's Dan Berger fires back after CUNA CEO Jim Nussle criticized the rival trade group in a recent op-ed.

Organizers of Studio Bank in Nashville have raised more than $40 million, satisfying the minimum amount set by regulators.

The outgoing head of the ICBA reflects on how technology and partisan politics have changed policymaking over the past 15 years.

The Senate is expected to pass a bill that would ax controversial guidance on loans at car dealerships; lower tax rate may have skewed year-on-year comparisons.

Representatives from the law firm of Messick, Lauer & Smith took part in a compliance panel during the National Association of Credit Union Service Organizations' annual conference in Anaheim, Calif.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked 13 cryptocurrency exchanges for detailed information about their operations as part of a "fact-finding inquiry."

As the Senate closes in on overturning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2013 indirect auto loan rule, a central question is how lasting the congressional measure will be in limiting the CFPB's authority.

The rules to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act have become "formulaic and ossified" and must be changed to encourage lending practices the law originally intended to foster, the Fed's top regulator said.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked 13 cryptocurrency exchanges for detailed information about their operations as part of a "fact-finding inquiry."

Lawmakers should not toss out an agency rule aimed at curbing auto dealer markups that adversely impact borrowers of color.

Fed vice chair wants to put stress test scenarios out for comment by banks; C&Is outstanding at record level in March.

The Federal Reserve is considering allowing banks a chance to comment on stress tests before they take them and dropping any qualitative review for the largest banks’ performance, according to Randal Quarles, the central bank’s vice chairman for banking supervision.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has been leading the charge on revamping the Community Reinvestment Act, but a big unknown is whether the other two regulators charged with carrying out the law are committed to moving ahead as swiftly on a reform plan.