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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.

In a speech Sunday, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley gave credence to concerns that post-crisis regulatory reforms may have dried up liquidity in the Treasury and corporate bond markets, but said more examination is needed to guide effective policy.

Even if the Financial Stability Oversight Council fixes flaws in its process for designating "systemically important" companies, that doesn’t solve everything the council needs to achieve its mission.

WASHINGTON – Financial regulators are proposing changes to their standards for evaluating institutions’ compliance with consumer protection rules to account for the evolution in supervisory approaches since the standards were adopted in 1980.

Reflecting on his economic legacy, President Obama disputes the conclusion in "The Big Short" movie that nothing changed on Wall Street after the 2008 economic meltdown, and maintains that his policies have helped stabilize the financial sector.

Advocates on the left and the right routinely assert that "too big to fail" is still with us and that Dodd-Frank and other post-crisis reforms have not secured the financial system from excessive risk, and the public seems to agree. So where does regulatory policy go from there?

The core problem with the living wills, as with other tools in the Dodd-Frank Act to end “too big to fail,” is that they are by definition an attempt at predicting future events.

Banking regulators made several critically important changes in their new plan to restrict executive pay at financial institutions after their first attempt flopped in 2011. Here's what they did.

Continued doubts over ending "too big to fail" should force managers to elevate underappreciated staff whose job is to attack oncoming risks.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Monday expanded on his views about the state of financial regulation while casting doubt on the "total loss absorbing capacity" concept for bailing in failed banks.

The idea of financial institutions resembling utilities has caught on with some industry observers for reasons other than reducing systemic risk.