Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
-
Two bank trade groups have asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to relieve all banks from complying with its small-business lending rule until after the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether the bureau's funding is constitutional.
August 3 -
The Federal Reserve is leading the push for broader, more standardized risk-capital rules, yet some of its board members, other regulators and industry groups are uncomfortable with the proposal.
August 1 -
The racially targeted mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022 has renewed conversations about whether banks have a duty to help segregated, impoverished communities that were shaped in part by discriminatory lending practices. What do banks owe the Black community, and what influence could they have?
July 31 -
The new rule sets a nationwide standard for disclosing all "material" breaches within four days — much sooner than many state-level disclosure rules.
July 28 -
Federal Reserve Board Gov. Phillip Jefferson joined three other board members in supporting a notice of proposed rulemaking, but expressed concerns about the economic impact of the changes.
July 27 -
The Bank Policy Institute and American Bankers Association want the Federal Reserve to conduct a public review process when determining scenarios for the annual exams. They also want more information on the test's internal models and formulas.
July 26 -
The U.S. division of the Swiss bank will have to pick up the tab for its one-time rival, which it acquired in a government-brokered deal earlier this year.
July 24 -
The regional bank told analysts that it has studied how much debt it would need to raise based on an effective post-reform capital floor of 6% of risk-weighted assets, and has determined that that increase in capital would be manageable.
July 21 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrates its 12th anniversary on Friday, prompting Director Rohit Chopra to discuss the agency's work including a proposal to set credit card late fees at $8 and the upcoming Supreme Court case that could defund the bureau.
July 20 -
The Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision said regulators will adapt supervisory practices to account for advancements in machine learning.
July 18 -
The longtime chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will leave his post after 15 years to take an administrative position at Purdue University.
July 13 -
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



















