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Employees at the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research have raised concerns about racial discrimination and dysfunction at the agency, according to internal documents and videos posted online.

Global banking regulators said some U.S. lenders present a bigger risk to the financial system than last year and should face stiffer capital requirements to ward off threats.

Politicians clamoring for the largest U.S. institutions to be broken up have failed to consider the prospect of China acquiring a bigger piece of the American banking system.

For all of the sophisticated ways criminals might try to launder money, banks still need to defend against low-tech methods that aren’t easy to track.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has promised to serve out her term heading the central bank until it expires in 2018, ending speculation that she could resign earlier and give President-elect Donald Trump another important appointment to make when he assumes office in January.

A long-awaited report by the Federal Reserve’s Office of Inspector General found “significant variability” between regional banks’ willingness to consider dissenting supervisory views, and said the challenges facing the New York Fed are especially daunting.

The president-elect should consider establishing an executive-level office to inform his administration on ushering in a new era of financial regulation — one that is much savvier about new technology and big data.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari has sketched out what he calls a streamlined, simplified post-crisis regulatory structure that can end "too big to fail" and prevent financial crises – but it comes at the expense of economic growth.

The surprising outcome of last week's presidential election is already causing some banks to adjust interest rates on loans and rethink their technology spending.

In a highly anticipated report, the Government Accountability Office found room for the Fed to improve its stress testing program, but its criticisms fell far short of industry hopes that the watchdog would provide cover for sweeping changes to the program.