State regulators

Ocwen Financial is a step closer to the day when it can resume purchases of mortgage servicing rights.

We need to continue the dialogue between state regulators and fintech firms on a broad range of important issues impacting this growing industry.

The German lender says that the Justice Department closed a criminal inquiry into its currency-trading activities without action, but regulators are said to be in the final stages of their own reviews of that conduct to determine if any fines are in order.

Eleven senators sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him not to enforce federal pot laws in states that have legalized marijuana.