Risk

For decades, farmers have relied on futures contracts to hedge their risk. The proposed new capital rules will make it more expensive for them to continue with this vital function.

Regulators are pushing a scheme that is completely out of touch with international regulatory norms. It would irreparably harm both consumers and the U.S. economy.

The Rhode Island-based bank is bolstering its cash position in the face of worries about office loans, stricter capital requirements for regional lenders and the possibility of economic shock from overseas conflicts.

The simple act of disclosing their sensitivity to interest rate changes would bring market discipline to the banking industry's choices about interest rate risk.

Bankers often use return on equity to measure their success, but the banks whose stock prices have suffered most during past crises are the ones with high ROEs, according to new research. The findings add to academic skepticism about high-profit banks.

Long-term business profit is inextricably tied to sustainability. The head of the U.K.'s Chartered Banker Institute explains that financial services leaders have a special responsibility to understand and communicate that fact.

Regulators and the public are still concerned about the condition of the banking system. Bankers can't afford to look away.

When 55 banks were asked to provide metrics on the health of their commercial real estate borrowers, some of them gave data that was six months old. The survey by Moody's Investors Service also found that certain borrowers are already struggling, and others could hit trouble soon, since they'll need to refinance at high interest rates.

Banking crises always recur. But time and again, bankers have been shown to operate on the assumption that good times are permanent.

An effort to ensure banking services are available to legal businesses is being undermined by groups trying to rewrite the history of regulatory overreach related to supposed reputational risk.

Establishing a conduct risk authority in the U.S. would go a long way toward restoring trust in the banking industry.

UMB Financial hired an outside company to provide customer service in connection with some of its credit cards and debit cards. In a lawsuit, the Missouri bank alleges that the vendor suddenly stopped performing its duties, and that the bank's own employees had to step into the void.

Artificial intelligence can and should be integrated into the business of banking, but with adequate safeguards in place to mitigate the technology's potential vulnerabilities.

Firms that had ratings cut included M&T Bank, Webster Financial, BOK Financial, Old National Bancorp, Pinnacle Financial Partners and Fulton Financial.

The rapid pace of innovation, reliance on a web of vendors and regulatory scrutiny means fourth-party risk is a more pressing consideration than in the past.

The Federal Reserve says its findings related to "unsafe and unsound practices and violations" of previous agreements with the central bank related to the lender's prior relationship with the Estonian branch of Danske Bank.

This is no time to haphazardly pile financial regulation and additional costs on an American economy that seems otherwise set to avoid the catastrophes predicted just last year.