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Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA POLICY WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama urged policy makers to rewrite the rules that govern U.S. finance, unveiling a series of sweeping proposals that will affect [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA FINANCIAL CRISIS WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's proposal to revamp financial-sector regulation is a high-risk strategy that pins much of the plan's success or failure on the [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF FINANCIAL SERVICES U.S. plans sweeping regulatory changes WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is expected Wednesday to propose the most sweeping reorganization of financial-market [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA FINANCIAL SERVICES White House backs down on regulators WASHINGTON -- WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF The Obama administration is backing away from seeking a major reduction in the [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA AND DAVID ENRICH FINANCIAL SERVICES Regulatory focus shifts to banks' leadership WASHINGTON -- Today is the deadline for U.S. federal bank regulators to approve capital-raising plans at [...]

CREDIT CRISIS Banks in no rush to wean themselves off U.S. loans Within a few weeks, some of the biggest U.S. banks will start disentangling themselves from the government's grip [...]

CREDIT CRISIS U.S. seeks broad changes to pay in financial industry WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has begun serious talks about how it can change compensation practices across the financial-services [...]

Byline: DEBORAH SOLOMON AND DAMIAN PALETTA FINANCIAL CRISIS U.S. adds conditions to repaying TARP funds WASHINGTON -- Banks that want to return Troubled Asset Relief Program funds will have to [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA AND DEBORAH SOLOMON CREDIT CRISIS U.S. may order 10 U.S. banks to boost capital WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is expected to direct about 10 of the 19 [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF The Obama administration, moving with increasing speed, has inked the main contours of its plan to revamp financial market oversight - changes that [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA, JON HILSENRATH AND DAVID ENRICH Barely a week after the third rescue of Citigroup Inc., U.S. officials are examining what fresh steps they might need to take [...]

Byline: JAMES R. HAGERTY AND DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- Red ink is starting to gush in even larger quantities at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as the government wrestles with [...]

Byline: DEBORAH SOLOMON, JON HILSENRATH AND DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government, recognizing that the banking crisis is far larger than originally thought, is laying the groundwork for a [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA AND JOHN D. STOLL WASHINGTON -- GMAC LLC said it would resume financing for 'a broader spectrum' of U.S. car buyers, a day after the federal government [...]

Byline: RUTH SIMON; Damian Paletta contributed to this article. More than half of homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments in the first six months after their loans were modified earlier [...]

Byline: DEBORAH SOLOMON AND DAMIAN PALETTA; Robin Sidel, Ruth Simon and James R. Hagerty contributed to this article. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department is considering a plan to revitalize [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- Senior federal officials are discussing temporarily backing all U.S. bank deposits if economic conditions continue to worsen, a move that would mark another unprecedented step [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's decision to take over injured mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is expected to heighten the philosophical war on the [...]

Byline: ROBIN SIDEL AND DAMIAN PALETTA The latest U.S. bank failures as the industry slogs through its worst crisis in a generation are showing the consequences of frenetic expansion that [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and two other regulators plan to propose strict polices on credit card issuers after criticism that card companies charge too many hidden [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is taking steps to brace for an increase in failed financial institutions as the U.S.'s housing and credit markets [...]

Byline: JAMES R. HAGERTY AND DAMIAN PALETTA The U.S. home mortgage industry is in the dumps. That doesn't mean the party is over for mortgage bankers. Countrywide Financial Corp., the [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA; Greg Ip contributed to this article WASHINGTON -- Alan Greenspan, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, tops a long list of academics, executives and economists who met [...]