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A lot is riding on the effectiveness of internal models to determine capital levels, but regulators still allow banks' methodology to be too opaque.

The regulators' annual Shared National Credits review found nearly 10% of large, syndicated credits demonstrated some form of weakness, most of which were leveraged loans. But renewed concerns about energy loans also cropped up.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen faced tough questions from lawmakers on Wednesday covering a range of issues, including small bank burden, executive compensation, and living wills at a hearing focused solely on banking regulation.

WASHINGTON — The House Financial Services Committee debated a bill Tuesday to remove a key Dodd-Frank Act size test that subjects any bank with over $50 billion in assets to heightened rules.

Banks undergoing annual Federal Reserve assessments should feel emboldened to challenge "matters requiring attention," and the Fed should hear them out.

The Federal Reserve Board issued a proposal Friday to require the largest and most systemically risky banks to issue additional capital and unsecured debt to absorb losses in a failure, a move that experts say could ultimately make the banks less complex and easier to resolve in a crisis.

New York Community Bancorp has agreed to buy Astoria Financial for about $2 billion in cash and stock, combining two of the largest New York-area banks to create an institution with about $64 billion in total assets.

Republican presidential candidates managed to get in several barbs over banking policy during the party's primary debate on Wednesday night, largely aimed at the Federal Reserve and government more broadly.

Citigroup isn't the poster-child for "too big to fail" anymore, Chief Executive Michael Corbat claimed Wednesday, arguing the bank had scaled back and learned from its mistakes leading up to the financial crisis.

A major investor in insurance giant American International Group is calling on the company to break itself up into three companies to get out from under its designation as one of only four systemically risky nonbanks.