Financial regulations

Yellen unsure what Glass-Steagall would look like today

03/15/17

Fed Chair Janet Yellen cast doubt on the administration’s call for a reinstatement of a Depression-era barrier between commercial and investment banking activities.

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Incoming ICBA chair eager for D.C. to walk the talk

03/15/17

Scott Heitkamp is encouraged by a more positive tone coming from President Trump. His goal in the next year is to make regulation easier for his fellow bankers.

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Tarp still casts shadow over recovering S.C. bank

03/08/17

HCSB Financial received a second subpoena from the Troubled Asset Relief Program's special inspector general.

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How will stress tests change in the Trump era?

03/03/17

The recent decision by the Federal Reserve Board to exempt banks with less than $250 billion in assets from the qualitative aspects of the CCAR stress tests may be a sign of things to come, says Joo-Yung Lee, head of North American financial institutions at Fitch Ratings.

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The reputational risk of regulatory reform

03/02/17

Under the Trump administration, the challenge for the industry is to find the proper balance between supporting post-financial crisis regulations that have worked well and campaigning for reform efforts that have been ineffective.

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Dimon on M&A: ‘There are still too many banks’

02/28/17

Regulators ought to make it easier for smaller institutions to merge, the CEO of the country's largest said Tuesday.

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Community bankers aren't holding their breath on reg relief

02/21/17

Attendees at an American Bankers Association conference believe a massive overhaul of banking regulations is unlikely.

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Former Tennessee Commerce exec charged with lying to regulators

02/08/17

Lamar Cox is accused of understating losses tied to the sale of foreclosed properties in 2009.

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FTC's top consumer protection official resigns

02/07/17

Jessica Rich, who joined the agency in 1991, is stepping down in mid-February, the FTC announced Tuesday.

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Ant Financial buying MoneyGram; Will blockchain 'change the world'?

01/27/17

Chinese's largest online payments company to get a footprint in the U.S.; Believers in blockchain bemoan the lack of global cooperation.

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