Trump administration

During a meeting with more than a hundred community bankers on Monday, Trump administration officials made it clear they favored a system with different rules for small and big banks.

The Treasury secretary on Monday reiterated an aggressive timetable for tackling the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, an issue that has long flummoxed Congress.

The $248 million for the CDFI Fund is a defeat for President Trump, who had proposed scrapping the fund entirely in his initial budget proposal.

At a minimum, federal lawmakers should fully fund the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and support the CDFIs that provide economic opportunity where it is needed most.

President Trump is scheduled to meet with the top leadership of the Independent Community Bankers of America on Monday.

President Trump has nominated Pam Patenaude, the president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families, to serve as HUD's No. 2.

After such a period of collective euphoria following the November election, how does the manager of a large institution explain a declining stock price to investors?

Administration and leaders in Congress support some common principles that could help banks.

The insurer says the administration’s review of systemic designations could moot the case.

The president’s targeting of the FDIC’s orderly liquidation authority may ultimately heighten concerns about “too big to fail.” Here's why.

A Trump administration budget proposal to end federal funding for community development financial institutions would push small businesses to high-risk, high-cost lenders.

Credit unions have long been the beneficiaries of the Community Development Financial Institution grant program and are loathe to see it nixed.

Randal Quarles, the latest front-runner for the vice chair of banking supervision at the Federal Reserve Board, would represent a moderate, mainstream Republican choice that is likely to be welcomed by the financial services industry.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Randal Quarles, a senior Treasury official in the Bush administration, to be the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator, according to a person familiar with the selection process.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday rolled back an Obama administration attempt to reform how student loan servicers collect debt.

Banks may be hoping for a friendlier enforcement environment under the Trump administration, but legal experts suggest a lighter touch will probably not extend to Wells Fargo.

CEO Jes Staley is investigated by British authorities for trying to unmask a bank whistleblower and will take a pay hit; ISS is second consultant to call for voting against Wells directors.

White House economic chief makes nice with Elizabeth Warren over resurrecting bank separation law; Renaud Laplanche launches a new company to compete with his old one.

Observers are divided over whether National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn's support for a modernized Glass-Steagall Act is purely opportunistic or sincere.

In a private meeting with lawmakers, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn reportedly said he supports a policy that could radically reshape Wall Street's biggest firms by separating their consumer-lending businesses from their investment banks.