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A House bill would create a database to track true ownership of corporations; Wall Street regulator wants banks to improve disclosure of risks to consumers. ... Read full article

Criticism of payday lenders is deserved and Congress should not throw out the CFPB's short-term lending measure. ... Read full article

Pimco's Richard Clarida is said to be out of the running for the nomination. Other names linked to the position have been former Fed Gov. Lawrence Lindsey and Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz SE, Pimco’s parent company. ... Read full article

The milestone marks the end of a seven-year-long recovery in the credit card market that followed the Great Recession. ... Read full article

The Minneapolis bank is the first bank to join Community Reinvestment Fund's online service that matches small-business borrowers who don’t qualify for bank loans with community development financial institutions. ... Read full article

Keith Noreika, who made waves during his brief stint as acting Comptroller of the Currency, has rejoined Simpson Thacher Bartlett as a partner. ... Read full article

The Senate Banking Committee is expected to soon release a bipartisan bill that would significantly reshape the housing finance market, but key issues – and whether whatever legislation it produces can be squared with other players – remain unclear. ... Read full article

The IRS has taken corrective actions to speed up its income verification system, avoiding a possibly crippling slowdown for the mortgage industry, but long-term issues remain. ... Read full article

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is asking acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney to account for recent directives limiting agency staff members’ ability to access or acquire electronic data, saying the moves hamper critical agency operations. ... Read full article

Northern Trust, which along with 16 other organizations had the public portion of its resolution plan released, said it made changes to its living will as a result of criticism by regulators. ... Read full article

A number of banks, especially those with extra real estate on their hands, are trying to capitalize on the co-working craze to appeal to fledgling companies that could become success stories — and their customers. ... Read full article

The alternative credit scoring model VantageScore would not increase access to credit, says Joe Smith, the former monitor for the 2012 national mortgage settlement. ... Read full article

A key part of Well Fargo's Camels score was reduced, reflecting concerns about its management; Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank join the list of banks taking writedowns for deferred-tax assets. ... Read full article

The Dodd-Frank Act gets more attention when it comes to regulatory burden, but the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-laundering statutes arguably present even more of a compliance challenge for bankers. ... Read full article

The proposal lays out principles in three critical areas: the effectiveness of senior management, handling of the firm’s business line and the independent risk management structures within a banking organization. ... Read full article

Banks have been in full cost-cutting mode in recent years, but with profits expected to increase substantially as a result of tax reform, all analysts and investors want to know is how they plan to spend their tax savings. ... Read full article

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints dropped last year for most of the big banks, including Wells Fargo, though they rose sharply at Capital One. ... Read full article

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has called for an investigation into how CFPB Deputy Director Leandra English was approved for a permanent civil service job at the agency. ... Read full article