SIFIs

The window for moving financial services regulatory relief through Congress is rapidly closing, but there appears to be little hope that the partisan tensions that have stalled the process will ease in time.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig said favorable leverage-ratio treatment for certain derivatives would undermine postcrisis capital reforms.

Criminal charges don't scare big banks anymore. Perhaps the Justice Department's fresh commitment to threatening top executives with prosecution will keep them in line.

The North Carolina-based BB&T is far larger than any other bank regulated by the FDIC. It should be under the supervision of an agency with more experience overseeing large banks.

Gregory Baer, the head of regulatory policy for JPMorgan Chase, will be the next president of The Clearing House Association, the group announced Friday.

The Justice Department's announcement that it would target individual executives at banks and other companies that are being investigated for wrongdoing has sparked a debate about whether the move is actually substantive or instead just designed to boost the agency's public image.

With summer recess ending, banking agencies are about to embark on a busy policymaking schedule leading up to the end of the year.

The world's biggest banks may gain greater flexibility in meeting new crisis rules as the Financial Stability Board adjusts its total loss-absorbing capacity proposal to eliminate bias against decentralized lenders and opportunities for regulatory arbitrage.

IMGCAP(1)]

Nearly seven years after the financial crisis, the uncomfortable truth for the banking industry is that populist anger remains alive and well.