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To avoid incurring a customer's wrath or a lawsuit, banks should make sure new fees carry a clear value exchange, offer something new (ahem, mobile) and are easily avoided. Resist any temptation to set fee traps.

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Unveiled: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued detailed guidelines for bank consultants, or "Wall Street's shadow regulators" (hmmm, where have we heard that term before?) on Tuesday. The guidelines require, among other things, that banks "disclose all work a consultant performed for the institution over the past three years" and "document disciplinary actions taken against the consultant and the resources the firm has to complete an assignment" in an...

At some point, the CFPB may start asking if issuers' credit scoring models negatively affect minority credit card applicants more than white applicants.

The 2008 financial crisis forced the Fed and Treasury into a too-cozy relationship and the Dodd-Frank law cemented it. Janet Yellen should use her confirmation hearing this week to reassert the central bank’s independence from the administration, argues editor-at-large Barbara Rehm

Bankers do not select the people who regulate them. To work, our system requires smart and prudent regulators as much as it requires smart and prudent bankers. Confirmation hearings should help us find out if Janet Yellen will be such a regulator.