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Byline: Rob Blackwell Since not long after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the government a decade ago, policymakers have been circling the same idea for how to [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Mick Mulvaney is fond of saying he wants to make the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into a 'gold-standard' regulator, arguing that its tone and substance should be [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Shahira Knight, the deputy director of the National Economic Council, is leaving the White House to join The Clearing House Association as its head of public affairs. [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Within minutes of the Federal Reserve Board releasing its long-awaited proposal to revise the Volcker Rule on Wednesday, the blowback from critics had already started. 'Let's call [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Thursday was a day of celebration for the banking industry. Nearly eight years after the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law, the first bill to make significant [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Since the waning days of the financial crisis, banks have increasingly posited themselves as the underdog against the likes of federal regulators, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Nice bank you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. That's the crux of an alleged threat made by Michael Piwowar, a Republican [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell COLORADO SPRINGS -- Comptroller Joseph Otting says he plans to use the current era of strong profitability, risk management and high capital within the industry to keep [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell When Mick Mulvaney first took the reins of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last year, he attempted to reassure anxious employees and the public that he was [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The president famous for being on reality TV has selected a television host as his next top economic adviser. President Trump is expected to announce [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell If Congress won't ban assault weapons, banks should do so on their own. That was the argument made by The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin, who [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved the final tax reform plan 51-48 early Wednesday, the second-to-last obstacle before sending it to President Trump for his signature. The bill [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee Jeb Hensarling shifted tactics on housing finance reform Wednesday, acknowledging that a bill he's pushed for years to virtually eliminate the [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2013 guidance putting indirect auto lenders on the hook for unintentional discrimination by their partner dealers should have been subject [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's pick as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that the agency would be 'dramatically different' under new leadership, [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON - Amy Friend, the chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, will retire on Nov. 11, the agency said late Wednesday. Friend [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat on the House oversight committee is asking the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to provide more details about why it recently banned a [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell Visiting American Samoa is like stepping back in time -- both because of its unsullied natural beauty and its antiquated banking system. The economy runs on cash, [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The Financial Stability Oversight Council discussed its designation of certain nonbanks as systemically important and the 'efficacy' of the Volcker Rule at a closed-door meeting [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- As President Trump heads to Capitol Hill Tuesday evening to make his first address to Congress, bankers are continuing to see him as a net [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Scott Alvarez, the Federal Reserve's longtime general counsel, will retire later this year after nearly three dozen years at the central bank, the agency announced [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The largest U.S. banks are treading lightly in response to President Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by refugees and others from certain [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- After initially declining this weekend to weigh in on President Trump's travel ban regarding refugees and others traveling from certain Muslim nations, Citigroup said Monday [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry, Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin wasted no time Wednesday wading into one of the thorniest debates in the financial services arena, saying the Trump [...]

Byline: John Heltman, Kate Berry, Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Be careful what you wish for. That's the lesson for banks and other financial institutions that have long sought to win [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- IBM will purchase Promontory Financial Group -- a consultancy so influential it has been dubbed the industry's 'shadow regulator' -- in a move that could [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell, Kate Berry, Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators and lawmakers raised concerns Tuesday that other institutions may be engaging in the same types of fraudulent activities that [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell, John Heltman WASHINGTON -- Wells Fargo was once held up as the gold standard for large banks -- a huge institution that could stay focused on traditional [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell, Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- In this political environment, it was always going to be a challenge for bankers to win much-sought structural reforms to the Consumer Financial [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Regulatory relief is arguably one of the most popular ideas in Congress -- embraced by most Republicans and plenty of Democrats -- but it has [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton renewed her pledge Tuesday to cut regulations for community banks and credit unions while also signaling plans to embrace the [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- When the Federal Reserve Board finally launched its own Facebook page last week, the response was as swift as it was predictable. The page was [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Despite efforts by regulators and banks to improve underwriting of commercial leveraged loans, the number of troubled large syndicated credits jumped again this year, according [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign repeatedly goes after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Monday, accusing her of hypocrisy as she campaigned alongside presumptive [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- It wasn't supposed to go this way. Although fears of a possible vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union had been growing, [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote to Visa on Tuesday to denounce a new fee the company has purportedly assessed on credit and debit card issuers [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the founder of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Thursday she would fight back against congressional efforts to delay or revamp the [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell The Consumer Financial protection Bureau's announcement in March that it is accepting complaints about marketplace lenders is a sure sign it is moving toward regulating the burgeoning [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell, Joe Adler WASHINGTON -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is trying to "supercharge" its process for reviewing financial innovations in an effort to keep [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- In the mass of banking-related provisions added to a financial services appropriations bill this week, one significant measure escaped notice -- a provision that would [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Republicans successfully moved sweeping regulatory relief legislation Thursday as part of the Senate appropriations process, moving it one step closer to avoiding Democratic objections. The [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Just a day after the Dodd-Frank Act's fifth anniversary, Senate Banking Committee Richard Shelby launched a new attempt to make significant changes to the law, [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department launched an inquiry into the marketplace lending industry on Thursday, seeking information on its business models, customers and ways firms should be [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Although overall lending was a bright spot in the Federal Reserve Board's report on economic activity released Wednesday, some bankers surveyed said excessive regulation is [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Rob Nichols, head of the Financial Services Forum and a former top Treasury Department official in the Bush administration, will be the next president and [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell, Rachel Witkowski WASHINGTON -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has no plans to review the charters of JPMorgan Chase or Citicorp following their agreement [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Since it was unveiled a week ago, most of the focus in Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby's draft of regulatory relief legislation has been [...]

Byline: Victoria Finkle, Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- The Senate Banking Committee is debating a number of key policy proposals -- including changes to the qualified mortgage rule and capital standards [...]

Byline: Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Did J.K. Rowling, author of the megabestselling Harry Potter series, just diss Sen. Elizabeth Warren? In responding to a fan Monday on Twitter, Rowling was [...]

Byline: Joe Adler, Rob Blackwell WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby announced Friday he was pushing back a planned vote on regulatory relief until May 21, a week [...]