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Over the past week, regulators have proposed the most substantial changes to capital requirements for the largest banks in years, but the most startling thing was how unremarkable they were. ... Read full article

During earnings calls, bankers welcomed the latest efforts by regulators to modify capital rules. JPMorgan Chase CFO Marianne Lake, meanwhile, called on policymakers to focus on overhauling the G-SIB surcharge. ... Read full article

Bank regulators propose to allow banks to phase in capital treatment of credit losses over three years. ... Read full article

Amber Baldet is exiting JPMorgan Chase to start her own venture, and another female executive is taking charge of the blockchain effort. BofA makes major progress on digital mortgages and gets gun-shy after Parkland. Plus, GM’s one-sentence dress code. ... Read full article

The firm warned Friday that it may take a charge of as much as $1 billion to settle a U.S. probe of its consumer business. ... Read full article

Record loan originations and strong growth in wealth assets under management more than offset a double-digit increase in expenses at the San Francisco company. ... Read full article

The bill, which also exempts community banks from the trading ban named for former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, would go a step further than the regulatory relief bill that passed the Senate. ... Read full article

Readers weigh in on the use of blockchain in property records, Mulvaney's efforts heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the need for financial standards in banking and more. ... Read full article

First Horizon CEO Bryan Jordan said the bank is still on track to meet cost-cutting targets from its 2017 deal for Capital Bank in North Carolina ... Read full article

Revenue and profit for the first three months of 2018 rose to all-time highs, the bank said Friday, spurred by record results from stock trading. ... Read full article

Revenue increased 2.8% to $18.9 billion thanks to gains in equities trading and other factors, but the bank still wants to improve its efficiency ratio, which could get harder as the year goes on. ... Read full article

Regulators should revise existing rules to encourage banks to offer short-term loans to customers who run into financial emergencies. ... Read full article

Opting out of doing business with the firearms industry is "troubling" behavior from banking institutions, said Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, during a hearing on Thursday. ... Read full article

As upstart companies mature, they face pressure to develop deeper relationships with their customers. That is leading some to offer to a wider range of products, including deposit accounts. ... Read full article

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney took heat from Democrats on whether he planned to take the agency's consumer complaint portal private while responding to Republican fears that its data collection activities pose a data security risk. ... Read full article

Bank of America is investing heavily in videoconferencing at unstaffed branches, Citigroup is experimenting with gamification and Union Bank’s PurePoint Financial is going entirely paperless. ... Read full article

Orchard Platform Markets, a provider of lending data and services backed by the former heads of Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, is set to be acquired by small-business lending platform Kabbage, said people familiar with the deal. ... Read full article

The Treasury Department’s long-awaited report on modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act was heavy on glittering generalities but light on specifics, which explains why the report punted the real job of making needed reforms. ... Read full article