Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The South Carolina company also provided a timeline for heightened regulation tied to crossing the $10 billion asset threshold.
January 23 -
The agency is winning praise for changes in how loans are evaluated for defects, which could cut down on the risk of enforcement actions.
January 22 -
The new tax law led to a nearly $16 million charge at the Pennsylvania bank, but it reported 7% loan growth and an 8% increase in fee income.
January 22 -
Here's a look at what happens at five federal agencies that support the mortgage industry during a government shutdown.
January 19 -
An exclusive look at the Senate's tightly held housing finance plan drew the most interest from readers this week, while TD's foray into AI and the roller coaster at CFPB also dominated attention.
January 19 -
Wells Fargo joins the list of banks recently hobbled by tech outages. Is there a better response than "Sorry for the inconvenience"?
January 19 -
Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney has cited hundreds of confirmed and suspected data breaches as justification for his halting the bureau's data collection activities last month.
January 19 -
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles on Friday gave the clearest indication yet of the central bank's intention to recalibrate the regulatory framework for the nation’s largest banks.
January 19 -
"I've told people from the day I walked in there, I wasn't there to burn the place down or blow it up," the consumer bureau's acting director said at a White House briefing.
January 19 -
A bill passed by the House would raise the threshold that allows smaller banks and credit unions to avoid expanded Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements imposed by a 2015 rule.
January 19 -
Fears about regulators coming down on digital currency trading caused an epic crash in the market. But reining in this evolving asset class won't be easy.
January 19 -
The new tax law helped boost fourth-quarter results at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, while the recent rate hikes led to gains in spread income.
January 19 -
To free the payments industry from seven decades of standards and legacy operations, the Secure Remote Payment Council is asking more stakeholders to embrace the concept of an open operating standard for security and transaction routing.
January 19 -
Readers react to Mick Mulvaney launching a public review of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, weigh in on the Senate’s bill to ease some Dodd-Frank rules, opine on how the wave of GOP departures will affect banks and more.
January 18 -
Senate negotiators are working on a bill that would place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into receivership and replace them with multiple mortgage guarantors, according to sources.
January 18 -
Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting blasted a letter from Senate Democrats criticizing his agency for not implementing recommendations on supervision in the wake of the Wells Fargo scandal.
January 18 -
Craig Phillips, a top aide to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, said his department "broadly" agrees with the FHFA plan, which would return Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private market and provide them an explicit government guarantee.
January 18 -
If anyone has doubted that acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney intends to overhaul the agency, the last three days alone have put those doubts to rest.
January 18 -
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s semiannual report on industry risk said tougher competition between banks, leading to looser underwriting, could arise from the economic expansion.
January 18 -
HSBC has agreed to pay $100 million in penalties to resolve a Justice Department investigation into the rigging of currency rates, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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