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Over a dozen progressive lawmakers urged the central bank to reverse its course and protect bank regulations enacted after the financial crisis.

The Defense Credit Union Council and the Association of Military Banks of America sent dueling letters to Congress about whether banks should pay for space on military installations.

Ask 453 bankers their forecasts on loan demand and the economy, or their feelings about the BB&T-SunTrust merger, pot banking as well other hot issues, and a clear picture emerges. Promontory Interfinancial Network recently did just that, and here our five takeaways from the results.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Tuesday that her legislation aimed at restricting anonymous shell companies could get a vote in the Financial Services Committee as early as the end of June, after consideration was postponed last week.

In his first public policy speech as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mark Calabria stressed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have to raise significant capital via a public offering and take other steps in order to escape government control.