Voters so far are lukewarm on the president's efforts to change the narrative around his handling of the economy, but the administration's bid to win the economic messaging war could cause Washington to come down more harshly on banks.

Banks say more transparency is needed in the annual scenario testing regime to make capital planning more predictable. But amid a flurry of regulatory reforms, the expectation is that capital requirements are only going up from here.

Rising interest rates are putting pressure on multifamily housing borrowers — especially investors who were looking for a quick return.

The payment supplement partial claim the Federal Housing Administration proposed could be effective but not as is, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association and two other groups.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, challenged the idea that credit card late fees serve as a deterrent to delinquency, instead saying issuers told her office that some of them earn tens of millions of dollars collecting late fees.

The watchdog claims that during internal testing, the company illegally processed $2.3 billion in mortgage payments.

A report from the Treasury Department's Federal Insurance Office urges state regulators to spruce up their toolkits for monitoring and mitigating the impact of climate change on homeowners insurance.

The heads of the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. say upcoming capital proposals won't be implemented for years, but banks tend to move fast to get ahead of upcoming changes.

Philip Jefferson, a current Federal Reserve Board member, is President Biden's nominee to be vice chairman of the central bank. At a Senate hearing, he gave measured responses to questions about the potential for heightened regulation of midsize banks.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decided to move forward with its proposal based on feedback to an earlier request for input.

The Federal Reserve chair said that as the Treasury replenishes its general account at the Fed, it will lead to fewer reserves in the banking system.

Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra as an 'extortionist' and labeled his efforts to rein in discrimination as 'McCarthyism' during a four-hour hearing Wednesday.

The Treasury has added Property Assessed Clean Energy financing for solar panels and the like to the list of approved expenses that states could authorize.

Federal bank regulators issued proposed guidelines for banks and other mortgage lenders to craft policies around reconsideration of value requests. The move is the latest aimed at rooting out bias in home appraisals.

House Republicans will likely need to gain support from Democrats to get the debt limit deal through a critical vote in the House Wednesday evening.

Once it is free to issue new debt, the Treasury Department is expected to quickly replenish its general account at the Fed. The move could lead to a shortage of reserves.

The global accord's provision on supervision establishes broad authorities over risks not expressly covered in capital rules. The Federal Reserve's top regulator has already hinted that those authorities might be relied on more in the wake of this spring's bank failures.

The Federal Reserve Board governor said secular increases to the currency supply limits how much the central bank can shrink its holdings.

During her opening remarks before lawmakers Tuesday, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency reiterated that borrowers with strong credit profiles are not being penalized to benefit those with poorer scores.

The CEOs of the nation's largest banks met with officials in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday, just two weeks before the government is expected to go broke. Behind the scenes, the banks are reviewing contingencies in case the unthinkable occurs.