News Topic: Policymaking

The Obama administration had tried to ease restrictions on the Federal Housing Administration's condominium program, but the agency under President Trump is seen as moving more aggressively. ... Read full article

Lawmakers should preserve the credit meant to spur economic development as part of sweeping tax reform being debated in Congress this week. ... Read full article

The House Financial Services Committee was expected to approve a bill as early as Wednesday that amends key provisions of the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008. ... Read full article

The fundamental conclusion of the Federal Housing Administration’s fiscal year 2017 actuarial review is that the financial problems of the FHA Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program keep getting worse. ... Read full article

For the second week in a row, the CFPB's leadership shakeout dominated readers' attention, while a regional banker discussed efforts to fight hacking and the impact of the tax cuts, and bitcoin's price soared. ... Read full article

Readers react to the change in tone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the launch of voice-command banking on Amazon’s Alexa, how regulation affects financial innovation and more. ... Read full article

Fed's supervision chief wants more openness on bank stress tests; cybercurrency jumps 40% in 40 hours, climbing past $19,000. ... Read full article

The agency has suffered a series of setbacks over the past two months, from a rollback of its arbitration rule to a legal battle over its leadership. Here's what happened — and where the agency might lose next. ... Read full article

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's decision to hire Thomas Barkin as its next president has renewed questions over the cloaked process of selecting officials who set the most widely watched policy interest rates in the world. ... Read full article

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is eliminating a plan designed to ensure its examiners did not get too close to the big banks they supervise. ... Read full article

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2013 guidance putting indirect auto lenders on the hook for unintentional discrimination by their partner dealers should have been subject to Congressional review, the Government Accountability Office said ... Read full article

In a letter to President Trump, 44 Democratic senators said the White House's appointment of Mick Mulvaney as interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "jeopardizes the agency’s independence and effectiveness." ... Read full article

Richard Cordray, whose resignation as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sparked a battle over the agency's leadership, plans to announce on Tuesday he's running for Ohio governor as a Democrat. ... Read full article

The Dodd-Frank Act included a provision to lock some of the biggest firms into enhanced supervision even if they wanted to exit. But that grasp may not be as strong as it used to be. ... Read full article

Directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond have chosen Thomas Barkin, a senior executive at global consulting firm McKinsey & Co., as the institution's next president, said a person familiar with the decision. ... Read full article

The court decision regarding the “valid when made” doctrine moved us further away from creating a more effective and inclusive financial system. ... Read full article

Describing cybersecurity as the biggest risk facing the financial sector, Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said regulators should more actively facilitate conversations between banks and national security agencies to boost digital security. ... Read full article

Readers react to the CFPB director shake-up, applaud honorees of American Banker’s annual banker awards and weigh in on the heated financial data debate. ... Read full article