Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The Federal Reserve chair said there is a consensus within the central bank's board of governors for reproposing its capital rules, but notes that other agencies have not yet signed off on this approach.
July 9 -
Securitizations face fewer complications under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) but missed filings can incur stiff penalties.
July 3 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell brushed away concerns that a second Trump presidency could imperil the central bank's independence.
July 2 -
The 45% charge provides an interim step toward a longer-term risk-based capital schema for insurers.
July 2 -
Banking experts are divided on how regulators will reshape the capital overhaul and if reported revisions being floated by regulators will meet the banking industry's demands.
June 30 -
The high court's much-anticipated ruling gives federal courts — rather than executive agencies — the power to interpret ambiguous statutes. The decision is expected to facilitate an increase in litigation over banking regulations.
June 28 -
The Federal Reserve attributes the uptick in simulated losses in this year's stress test examination to heightened risks on bank balance sheets and higher expense levels. Credit cards and corporate lending were top areas of concern for the central bank.
June 26 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau extended the deadline for lenders with the highest volume of small-business loans to July 18, 2025, and will not assess penalties for reporting errors for a year.
June 25 -
The suggested order would require Freedom Mortgage to pay $3.95 million to settle allegations that it botched its reporting of customer data to the watchdog.
June 18 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., an influential progressive member of the Senate Banking Committee, decried reported meetings between Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and large bank CEOs who want the Basel III endgame proposal weakened.
June 18 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra pushed back against a new argument posed by Senate Republicans that the bureau may only be funded if the Federal Reserve earns a profit.
June 12 -
Fifteen million Americans who owe a combined $49 billion in medical debt would benefit from a proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scrub medical debts from credit reports and ban their use in underwriting decisions.
June 11 -
A Minnesota trade group and its co-plaintiff, Lake Central Bank, signaled that they plan to appeal a district court's dismissal of their lawsuit against the FDIC. The case involves the agency's guidance on nonsufficient funds fees.
June 6 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Monday completed its rule establishing a nationwide database for a wide swath of financial companies — including payments companies, debt collectors, auto lenders — that have faced regulatory or legal penalties for consumer-related infractions.
June 3 -
A federal judge in Texas is locked in a back-and-forth with an appeals court over whether the industry's challenge to a cap on credit card late fees should be moved to Washington, D.C.
May 29 -
Beth Hammack, who stepped down as the bank's co-head of global finance earlier this year, will take the helm as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland later this summer following the retirement of longtime President Loretta Mester.
May 29 -
If approved by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the program will not lead to large amounts of home equity being extracted, nor is it mission creep, wrote Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst Bose George.
May 28 -
House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., told Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg to make himself available for a June 12 hearing on the agency's workplace culture.
May 23 -
Companies are seeing evidence of income falsification, which previous research shows is the most common type of fraud or defect risk.
May 23 -
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr Monday spoke at length about efforts to enhance banks' liquidity and long-term debt positions after last year's bank failures while saying little about the capital hikes in the embattled interagency Basel III endgame proposal.
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