Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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Five organizations representing large banks sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell requesting a long and thorough public review process for rule changes that are expected to be rolled out this summer.
July 13 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve have questioned prime brokers about the basis trade as well.
July 12 -
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.
July 12 -
Junior tranches are at the heart of the debate around whether the capital that insurers currently hold against CLOs is sufficient, and the NAIC may soon impose stiffer risk-based capital requirements.
July 12 -
Canada's banking regulator is proposing to make it more costly for lenders to accommodate mortgage borrowers who stretch out their loans in an effort to limit housing-market risks in the financial system.
July 11 -
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.
July 7 -
Rising interest rates are putting pressure on multifamily housing borrowers — especially investors who were looking for a quick return.
July 5 -
Some pandemic-related gains have been ceded to depositories, national numbers from last year's Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting confirm.
June 30 -
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.
June 30 -
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.
June 27