SIFIs

Better coordination and information sharing needs to be fostered between financial regulators worldwide in order to reduce risks posed by so-called shadow banking sector, a group of international supervisors said Wednesday.

In guidance on banks' resolution plans, regulators effectively have made important policy decisions about liquidity transformation that were not subject to notice and comment.

Joseph Fellerman, a former special adviser at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was one of the first people at the agency to research systemic resolution. Now, the agency is better prepared to handle the next big crash, he told the American Banker in a sit-down interview.

I bear no hard feelings for the JPMorgan Chase CEO, but our disagreement underscores a rift between how Wall Street firms and community banks view the post-crisis landscape.

Goldman Sachs Group’s compensation plan, including a provision making Lloyd Blankfein the highest-paid chief executive officer of a Wall Street bank for his work last year, drew the most opposition since shareholders began voting on the matter in 2009.

The heads of megabanks get paid a lot. Some investors want them to streamline their companies for greater returns. But it's arguable whether those CEOs would want to do so if their counterparts at smaller, better-performing banks get paid less.

In his first public remarks this year, Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel Tarullo offered a preview of the enhanced capital and liquidity requirements that certain insurers will soon face.

Regulators have abused their role of implementing law to actually make financial policy, usurping the role of Congress in a tripartite system.

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari made waves when he said drastic measures — including potentially breaking up the megabanks — are needed to end "too big to fail." In an expansive interview, Kashkari talked about his political future, the culture at the Fed and the challenge of legislating change.

JPMorgan attracted stronger support for its annual say-on-pay vote after dozens of conversations with major shareholders prompted it to make a series of changes to executive compensation.

Key Democrats abruptly reversed course Tuesday concerning a monetary policy tool, saying they now support the Federal Reserve's ability to pay interest on banks' excess reserves.

As the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis continues its yearlong inquiry into how to end "too big to fail" in the banking system, academics and economists are starting to home in on a different but related question: How do we keep financial contagion from creating financial crises?

In a blog post on the Brookings Institution website, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel reforms as a necessary "process" while countering calls to break up the largest U.S. banks as shortsighted and unnecessarily disruptive

Stephen Scherr, Goldman Sachs Group's chief strategy officer, will take on the additional role of chief executive officer for banking operations.

Recent speculation that Comerica is on the block has sparked a conversation about how regulators would vet the sale of a SIFI.

Can't anybody get along … for even five minutes? JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon called community banking leader Cam Fine a "jerk" on cable television. Fine responded by blasting megabanks for their role in the financial crisis.

The Federal Reserve deserves praise for a proposal that would strengthen financial stability by eliminating the rights of counterparties to tear up derivatives contracts in a failure.

With agencies created by the Dodd-Frank Act embroiled in court battles and continued questions dealing with "too big to fail," can anyone honestly say the reform law is working?

Just six months out from the general election, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s positions on banking issues remain a complete mystery aside from a general pledge to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Federal Reserve voted Tuesday to consider a proposal that would limit counterparties' contractual rights to early payment in the event of a big bank default — rights that industry groups have argued reach too far.