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After anticipating four years of coordination with the White House, stunned Wall Street critics are reorganizing their priorities and vowing to oppose any attempts by the new Republican government to roll back post-crisis reforms.

Donald Trump's campaign strongly endorsed the idea of restoring the Depression-era separation of banking and commerce, but since Trump's victory, the idea has all but vanished.

President-elect Donald Trump's victory poses a unique quandary for the Federal Reserve both before and after he is sworn in — whether the central bank should attempt to finish the many rules still in process or keep its head down to avoid provoking a hostile Congress.

While Washington scrambles to make sense of President-elect Donald Trump's victory and Republicans' control of both chambers of Congress, the implications of the 2016 election on the Financial Stability Oversight Council will be swift and severe, analysts say.

There was another surprise Tuesday as Republicans managed to keep a Senate majority following the elections, likely giving the gavel of the Banking Committee to Sen. Mike Crapo, a right-of-center Idaho lawmaker who has proven willing to reach across the political aisle in the past.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's shocking victory late Tuesday left world markets rattled, and financial services companies facing an uncertain future. But once they adjust, financial institutions are likely to embrace Trump's de-regulatory agenda.

It is premature to say whether criticism of cross-selling and calls to break up the big banks will lead to action, but there is one area where a spinoff could actually be in the banks' interest.

WASHINGTON — A group of financial regulators have announced final changes to its ratings system for examining banks' compliance with consumer protection laws. The update to the ratings generally reflects changes in the marketplace since the rating system was adopted in 1980.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve's periodic survey of bank loan officers indicates that a decline in banks' share of commercial and industrial lending activity is likely related to nonbanks' ability to outcompete on both price and loan terms.

If the Democratic nominee wins the presidency, she could quickly face opposition from within her own party regarding her moderate views on banking and economic policy, particularly from Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Revelations from the last several weeks once again underscore the need for effective reputational risk management.

No matter the outcome of the divisive 2016 election, the many regulations still in the pipeline from banking regulators are not going to come to a screeching halt when the next president takes the helm in January.

If Sen. Sherrod Brown becomes chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he is likely to focus on toughening rules on the biggest banks, conducting oversight of scandals like the one at Wells Fargo and granting regulatory relief to smaller institutions.

WASHINGTON — Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are raising concerns about why independent audits of Wells Fargo's internal controls didn't discover fraudulent account openings by thousands of employees.

WASHINGTON – Sixteen Senate Democrats sent a letter to federal financial regulators on Wednesday asking them to strengthen a proposal to restrict executive compensation at financial firms.

Wells Fargo appears to have offered two different reasons for why it failed to inform investors about the investigation into 2 million phony accounts. That could play a role into whether the Securities and Exchange Commission files charges against the bank for disclosure violations.

Based on questions from appellate judges on Monday morning, MetLife appears to be facing an uphill fight to defend a lower court ruling that found federal regulators erred in designating the firm as a systemically important financial institution.

Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel Tarullo defended regulators' item-by-item approach toward reining shadow banking activities, saying broader moves could be insufficiently tailored to the conditions of specific firms and activities.

A slew of recent cases of misconduct in banking – from both the investment and retail sides of the business – have eroded the trustworthiness of the entire industry, William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said Thursday.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decried an appeals court ruling last week that found its single-director structure unconstitutional, saying the opinion was "wrongly decided" and had "no basis in the text of the Constitution or in Supreme Court case law."