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The revisions would emphasize activities-based regulation over labeling individual firms as systemically risky.

The central bank is limiting the use of its qualitative objection in this year’s stress tests, the agency announced Wednesday.

The interagency panel formed to head off approaching systemic risks must figure out its next move after having undone designations of nonbank firms.

Assets increased 6% in 2018 to nearly $52 billion as loan originations surged and the company redeployed $2 billion of cash into higher-yielding securities.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren questioned the five largest U.S. retail banks in a letter on what they are doing to reduce the impact of the government shutdown on customers.

A no-deal Brexit could throw the international swaps market into disarray in a way that could be difficult to predict, and could have dire consequences for U.S. banks and the world economy.

The Dodd-Frank Act gave the central bank authority to set capital requirements for insurance companies that own a federally insured bank, as well as those determined to be systemically important.

A big splash by Fifth Third, a bid by WSFS to reinvent itself and some bold long-distance expansions highlighted a year where deal activity held steady but premiums rose.

Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., will join the panel as their caucus loses two other committee members who suffered election defeats.

Just as a recent law softened Dodd-Frank resolution plan requirements, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced an effort to ease such rules for depository institutions.