Regulatory relief

The banking industry group has so far endorsed six candidates in their re-election campaigns for the upcoming November elections.

JetStream FCU’s Jeanne Kucey says her greatest goal as NAFCU board chair is regulatory relief for credit unions, and she'll do whatever she can to achieve that in the year ahead.

Federal bank regulators consider roughly a dozen new rules; firms tout tools to help financial institutions bank legal marijuana-related businesses; Mick Mulvaney defends CFPB enforcement powers; and more from this week's most-read stories.

The House Financial Services Committee chair also acknowledged that his capital-formation bill still faces a potentially tough Senate vote.

Elizabeth Warren, Sheila Bair and other regulatory hawks at a D.C. event hailed the reforms enacted in the wake of the 2008 crisis.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is suspending its ongoing review of new credit scoring models and will instead move forward with creating a regulatory framework for providers of alternative credit scores to apply and be evaluated for use by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The federal bank regulators are considering roughly a dozen new rulemakings in response to the bill rolling back certain sections of Dodd-Frank.

The House appropriations bill would also expedite the appeals process for CFPB examination decisions and reduce the number of times big banks must submit resolution plans to every two years.

The House appropriations bill would also expedite the appeals process for CFPB examination decisions and reduce the number of times big banks must submit resolution plans to every two years.

The nominee to run the consumer bureau endured tough questioning over the administration’s family-separation policy but appeared to weather the barrage.