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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse called on regulators to interpret oversight powers more broadly to cover hedge funds, private equity firms and more. Know your customer. It's a basic [...]

The central bank had exempted safe assets from a crucial regulatory requirement, in a bid to keep markets chugging last year. The Federal Reserve said on Friday that it would [...]

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It's less striking that a few Republican congressmen have publicly denounced President Trump's conduct than that most of their colleagues have not. Their fellow legislators have silently accepted his outrages [...]

Good Wednesday morning from Andrew Ross Sorkin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Michael J. de la Merced and Amie Tsang in London. We're watching the unlikely career resurrection of Klaus [...]

Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to strike down a sweeping new rule that would have allowed millions of Americans to band together in class-action lawsuits against financial institutions. The overturning [...]

The Treasury Department took aim on Monday at a rule that would allow millions of Americans to band together in class action lawsuits against Wall Street firms, saying it could [...]

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators on Thursday took up the fight for their right to label certain financial institutions as ''too big to fail'' after a Federal District Court threw out [...]

Regulators released long-awaited rules on Thursday morning that aim to restrict how big financial institutions can pay their top executives. The new limits on banker bonuses would make the highest-paid [...]

The United States government is close to issuing a rule that will for the first time require banks and other financial institutions to find out the identities of people hidden [...]

Wall Street is one of the favorite punching bags in the presidential primary campaigns. Donald J. Trump claimed in September that hedge fund managers were ''getting away with murder'' by [...]

In the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve had the ability to make huge emergency loans to almost any entity it chose, a power it used [...]

The Watergate credo to ''follow the money'' is the reason for a number of laws that require banks, credit unions and money-transmission businesses to keep track of who their customers [...]

The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that American stock prices were high and that United States insurers and mutual funds were vulnerable to financial shocks. It also urged Congress [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission faces new pressure from Congress to make it harder for lawbreaking companies to hold on to important privileges that help them raise money in the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Elizabeth Warren once famously said that she was willing to see ''plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor'' in her fight against Wall Street excess. [...]

Italy's biggest bank reported a huge loss on Tuesday, foreshadowing the possibility that many financial institutions across Europe could be forced to acknowledge the full extent of their own problems [...]

The success of the Volcker Rule, unveiled this week, depends on federal regulators doing what they failed to do in the run-up to the financial crisis and have done only [...]

The Obama administration escalated sanctions pressure against Iran on Monday for the third time in a week, taking actions that could further weaken the country's already-devalued currency and seriously disrupt [...]

Seeking to escalate pressure on Iran, a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Wednesday that would deny the Iranian government access to its foreign exchange reserves parked in the [...]

WASHINGTON PROGRESSIVES and conservatives can debate the proper role of government, but this is one principle on which we can all agree: The government shouldn't pick economic winners or losers. [...]

COPENHAGEN -- European Union finance ministers agreed on Saturday to increase competition among credit ratings agencies and to continue difficult discussions on taxing certain financial transactions. At the end of [...]

This has been a bad year for banks. With sovereign debt no longer trusted and widespread fears of a new recession in Europe, share prices of banks have fallen sharply. [...]

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission is expected to unveil a detailed plan on Wednesday to create a financial transaction tax, despite the opposition of several member countries and a formal [...]

At least one lawmaker seems to want the Securities and Exchange Commission to become irrelevant. The regulator has had its problems. But a Republican bid to reshape it seems meant [...]

A year after passage of the Dodd-Frank act, the $10.5 trillion American mortgage market remains in limbo. One big reason is that the law scarcely touches Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac [...]

WASHINGTON -- In the year since the passage of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system after the financial crisis, the stock market is up, banking profits have [...]

FEAR NOT The Obama administration has trumpeted its recent overhaul of financial rules as a stern warning to Wall Street. Community bankers, on the other hand, need not fear the [...]

WASHINGTON -- She never actually uttered ''I come in peace,'' but Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration aide charged with setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, might have felt [...]

The pinata sat alone at the witness table, facing the members of the House subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit. The Wednesday morning hearing was titled ''Oversight of the [...]

SAFEGUARD A top banking regulator approved a plan to seize and unwind big banks, a proposal that will help address those ''too big to fail'' firms whose collapse could imperil [...]

Federal regulators on Tuesday took an expansive view of the types of companies that could be deemed essential enough to the financial system that they should be subjected to greater [...]

Rating agencies were just branded ''essential cogs in the wheel of financial destruction.'' Despite the label from the commission studying causes of the crisis, rating firms are on the mend. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The new regulatory board charged with overseeing the stability of the financial system took its first big steps on Tuesday to set out tentative guidelines to limit trading [...]

WASHINGTON -- Companies spend millions of dollars each year complaining to Congress about burdensome laws and regulations, pressing their concerns in public campaigns and in private meetings. They rarely wait [...]

As Wall Street scrambles to comply with the regulations of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, one little-noticed provision has executives scratching their heads. The statute, included in Section 342 of the [...]

Was the great securitization machine that made hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage loans based on a legal foundation of sand? That possibility, raised by two law school professors, [...]

When Congress passed a new financial regulation bill last month, it sought to prevent federally insured banks from making speculative bets using their own money. But that will not stop [...]

The new financial regulatory reform is supposed to curb the predatory lending practices that led to the collapse of the mortgage market and have put millions of Americans at risk [...]

So it turns out that the Elizabeth Warren rap video that went 'viral' this week is actually a made-in-Hollywood production. You know the video, don't you? The one in which [...]

WASHINGTON -- The meeting in the back room may not be over, but at least the public can peek inside. After passage of the law overhauling the nation's financial regulations, [...]

Picking the chief of an investment bank used to be a relatively straightforward process. By and large, the business group that made the most money got to put its man [...]

Wall Street's summer may have officially started. Goldman Sachs last week settled fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Senate passed sweeping financial reform legislation. Even hapless BP [...]

JUST as Congress finally passed its sweeping financial reform bill last week, a chorus of high-profile chief executives and business lobbying groups were criticizing President Obama and what they see [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress approved a sweeping expansion of federal financial regulation on Thursday, reflecting a renewed mistrust of financial markets after decades in which Washington stood back from Wall Street [...]

WASHINGTON -- The death of Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia threw into doubt the ability of Democrats to win approval this week of a financial regulation bill and [...]

BASEL, SWITZERLAND -- An organization that brings together most of the world's major central banks said Monday that the easy money that has propped up the banking system during the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Well before Congress reached agreement on the details of its financial overhaul legislation, industry lobbyists and consumer advocates started preparing for the next battle: influencing the creation of [...]

''THE ROAD TO SERFDOM,'' the critique of socialism written 65 years ago by the Nobel laureate economist Friedrich von Hayek, was recently No. 1 in nonfiction sales at Amazon.com. Many [...]

After two months in which an oil gusher seemed to underscore the limits of his powers, President Obama spent the last week trying to reassert control over a triumvirate of [...]