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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg on Tuesday opposed efforts to roll back “core reforms” to bank regulation that were implemented after the 2008 financial crisis, but said some review of the Dodd-Frank law is warranted. ... Read full article

TruSight will assess, validate and monitor vendors on behalf of the consortium, which is expected to expand. ... Read full article

Under changes announced Tuesday, the San Francisco company will provide a one-day grace period on overdraft fees to its direct deposit customers. It also eliminated overdraft fees on all transactions of under $5. ... Read full article

Bipartisan proposal would remove the SIFI label from more than two dozen banks; European regulator cautions investors on the risks as bitcoin price plunges. ... Read full article

More stringent underwriting is the likely reason banks and credit unions are seeing relatively low levels of delinquencies on car loans to high-risk borrowers. ... Read full article

Jerome Powell has been in the public eye for decades. But what he would actually do with the job is unknown. American Banker reporter John Heltman explains. ... Read full article

In his first major move as CEO, Charlie Scharf has made several management changes at Bank of New York-Mellon. ... Read full article

Following in the footsteps of Chase, Wells Fargo and others, Fidelity is launching an application programming interface to let third-party apps access customer data — as long as the customers grant permission. ... Read full article

It was a decidedly mixed bag for banks and credit unions in the Senate regulatory relief bill, with some institutions doing quite well while others were left out in the cold. Following is a guide to who was helped - and who lost out. ... Read full article

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking more information about consumers' experience with free access to credit scores. ... Read full article

While the Bank of America chief says he is encouraged by progress on tax reform, he cautioned that it remains politically and fiscally tough to accomplish, and that the wrong moves on immigration could offset some of the gains from tax cuts. ... Read full article

The company has reapplied to buy Civic Bank more than a year after a regulatory snag forced it to put the deal on ice. ... Read full article

The San Francisco company is one of numerous online lenders that are struggling to become profitable. ... Read full article

The regulatory relief bill would raise the SIFI threshold to $250 billion of assets and allow mortgages held in portfolio to be counted as "qualified," among other items, but it is far less sweeping than institutions had hoped. ... Read full article

HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker has met with shareholders and discussed takeovers of U.S. credit card businesses in his first month in office, the Sunday Times reported. ... Read full article

The Trump administration is “sounding a friendlier tone” toward bankers following the Obama chill; credit bureau takes steps to limit the financial damage. ... Read full article

As the banking industry moves closer to adopting a faster payments system, bank executives have begun to think through the impact it will have on clients and banks themselves. ... Read full article

The sexual harassment tsunami continues, with stories from Fidelity and France. The woman behind Capital One's new chatbot drew on her experience creating animated characters for Pixar. And Wells Fargo whistle-blowers speak out. ... Read full article