Financial regulations

'Do you think Jamie Dimon needs those tools?': Comments of the week

10/16/17

Readers weigh in on how women can advance in business, the regulatory playing field for banks and nonbanks, the CFPB's payday loan rule, ATM withdrawals made through mobile wallets, and more.

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Quarles sworn in as Fed’s head of supervision

10/13/17

Randal Quarlies becomes the first of President Trump's nominees to be confirmed to the Fed board and the first person to become vice chair of supervision at the central bank.

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Senators question credit bureau model; Yellen (again) on 'appropriate' regs

10/05/17

Day two of Equifax hearing focuses as much on business model as on the data breach; Fed chair again says she supports bank rules that are not "unduly burdensome."

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Senate takes key step toward confirming Quarles for Fed

10/04/17

The Senate invoked cloture to begin the process of confirming Randal Quarles as a governor on the Fed board.

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The Women to Watch: No. 25, Sound Community's Laura Lee Stewart

09/25/17

Sound Community Bank CEO Laura Lee “Laurie” Stewart has made a career of going against the grain, and her bank’s investors, employees and customers are all better for it.

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CFPB arbitration rule is an undeniable win for consumers

09/22/17

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule on arbitration clauses may be bad news for alleged corporate wrongdoers like Equifax and Wells Fargo, but surely for the victims of such wrongdoing — and for consumers, generally — it is good news indeed.

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CFPB’s arbitration rule is best defense for ‘wronged’ consumers

09/18/17

Without the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's expanding consumers' legal options, they will continue to be vulnerable to the abusive practices that have proliferated throughout the financial industry in recent years.

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Why pricing terrorism risk remains a challenge for CRE insurers

09/11/17

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was created after 9/11 to serve as a crucial federal backstop for commercial real estate insurers, but an analysis of alternatives to fund the program reveals the continued challenges of measuring and predicting terror risk.

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Wooing millennials or ignoring them?

09/07/17

Fifth Third's Melissa Stevens targets millennials with new app. Meanwhile, regulators are accused of ignoring millennials. Plus, a Goldman Sachs wealth manager sues for discrimination.

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Fintechs’ defense of screen scraping is shortsighted

09/07/17

By design, any practice that requires a customer to simply hand over online bank credentials to a third party is a terrible idea.

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