Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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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 -
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 -
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.
June 26 -
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.
June 21 -
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.
June 14 -
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.
June 14 -
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, lambasted the Federal Reserve for increasing the dominance of "too big to fail" banks and failing to rein in systemic risk. He asked whether the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a better regulator than the Fed.
June 13 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra warned that "powerful firms" must not dominate the new open banking landscape.
June 12 -
Economic analysis from the real estate advisory CBRE finds that community banks are particularly imperiled by their exposure to commercial real estate loans. Others see looming risks in indirect lending.
June 9 -
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.
June 8 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued only 20 enforcement actions in 2022, but some observers say the enforcement numbers belie the results that director Rohit Chopra is getting from other ways of holding companies accountable.
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