SIFIs

The $5 billion settlement between Goldman Sachs and the Department of Justice sounds significant, but here's why it's not real accountability.

The National Credit Union Administration quietly announced Thursday a meeting to discuss a reproposed executive compensation rule — one of the last and most important unfinished regulations in Dodd-Frank.

Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both emphasized during a late Thursday debate that they are prepared to break up megabanks that pose a systemic risk to the U.S. economy, but also showed there are differences in how they approach "too big to fail."

WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill 247-171 on Thursday that would raise the threshold for a Federal Reserve Board exemption that helps banks raise Tier 1 capital.

House Republicans moved two bills through committee on Wednesday that would each roll back key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Office of Financial Research, an agency tasked with examining emerging threats to the financial system, said in a paper released Wednesday that U.S. global systemically important banks remain among the riskiest in the world, though risks from Chinese banks are growing the fastest.

U.S. regulators have asked their internal watchdogs to examine how assessments of banks' plans for winding down during a potential bankruptcy ended up in a news article.

The decision blocking the Financial Stability Oversight Council's designation of MetLife was presaged in factual and legal arguments made by trade associations and others for more than five years.

Regulators struck down the living wills of five of the eight megabanks under evaluation, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, requiring them to submit fixes to their resolution plans by Oct. 1 or face more stringent regulatory requirements.

WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill Tuesday that would create a new bankruptcy system for large financial institutions.