News Topic: Risk management

Get ready to meet 15 women — ages 40 and under — whose accomplishments and influence set them apart. ... Read full article

In today’s political climate, banks have to monitor not just how they do business, but with whom they do it. ... Read full article

TD and several other banks are licensing credit underwriting and fraud prevention technology from the fintech Avant to get their digital-lending products to market faster. ... Read full article

The heads of three agencies reiterated their concern about the bank’s progress in fixing risk management and corporate governance flaws. ... Read full article

Since Wells Fargo’s phony-accounts scandal broke in 2016, the bank has appeared contrite in public. In private, it’s a different story. ... Read full article

The battle lines drawn over federal efforts to restrict bank relationships with politically risky industries used to be clear cut. Not anymore. ... Read full article

Some contracts are not "adequately" defining which party — the bank or the vendor — is responsible for managing risks, the agency said. ... Read full article

Current rules developed in the early 1990s were driven more by politics than facts. ... Read full article

More attention should be paid to strategically preventing and mitigating problems that harm bank reputations. ... Read full article

Letters to eight bank CEOs from the Idaho senator were a rebuttal to calls by some Democrats for financial institutions to cut ties with firearms manufacturers, prison companies and others. ... Read full article

The bill by Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and John Kennedy, R-La., would block banks and credit unions with over $10 billion of assets from refusing service to "customers that may not share the same political values." ... Read full article

Speaking at a press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the bank’s risk management failures have required a dramatic overhaul of its processes. ... Read full article

U.S. banks accounted for nearly 40% of the financing worldwide to such firms, according to a report by Rainforest Action Network. ... Read full article

The bank was fined $25 million for what the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said was an inability to provide the discounts to all who were eligible. ... Read full article

The Federal Housing Administration is returning to manual reviews of higher-risk loans it insures because it's finding that a growing share have lower credit scores, higher debt-to-income ratios, or both. ... Read full article

Federal regulators normally hesitate even to name specific institutions, but the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency appears to be taking a different tack with Wells. ... Read full article

With regulators and policymakers studying their every move, financial institutions need to put more focus on preventing mistakes in the first place. ... Read full article

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters said the CEO's 2018 bonus was "outrageous and wholly inappropriate" and called for his removal. ... Read full article