BOSTON -- A top Federal Reserve official has raised the specter of higher capital requirements for leading banks beyond those agreed internationally, ...

* Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase top list * Must hold extra capital to absorb potential losses * Other b...

With a simple albeit ambitious decision, Wall Street regulators have a way to all but guarantee that there will be no more financial sector bailouts: require genuine "skin in the game" from bank owners.

The Fed has become somewhat impotent and should pass the buck to Congress. If only Congress would answer the phone.

WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday that the recent $2 billion trading loss by JPMorgan "helps make the case" for tougher rules...

* Big capital hole for top 103 banks if Basel III applied -BIS * Average core capital would sag to 7.1 pct vs 10.2 pct ...

The summer debate that has dominated Washington seems straightforward. Under what conditions should the U.S. government be allowed to borrow more mone...

(Reuters) - Banks that barely passed the European financial stress tests must swiftly reinforce their capital, ECB Governing Council member Erkki ...

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Steve Slater and Arno Schuetze) - Europe's banks may need to raise over 50 billion euros ($71.6 Billion) after regulators slappe...

FRANKFURT/LONDON (Sakari Suoninen and Huw Jones) - The world's biggest banks face a capital surcharge of up to three percent in a bid to keep taxp...

Executives at JPMorgan Chase aren't happy about the prospect of the government telling them how much money they must hold over for a rainy day. Th...

Given the enormous economic and human cost of the recent financial debacle, I strongly believe that we cannot afford to miss this opportunity for substantial reform.

WASHINGTON (By Emily Kaiser) - The world's banks face a $3.6 trillion "wall of maturing debt" in the next two years and must compete with debt-lad...

Back when it really mattered -- last spring, during the debate over the Dodd-Frank financial regulation -- Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, ...

(Reuters) - A global crackdown on bank oversight could undermine a fragile economic recovery if governments move too fast and fail to cooperate, inter...

LONDON: The new Basel III banking rules will leave the biggest U.S. banks short of between $100 billion and $150 billion in equity capital, with 90 pe...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve and other major U.S. banking regulators are calling new global bank capital standards a "significant step forward i...

Requirements that banks hold more cash to prevent against economic downturns won't just hurt the banks themselves, but also the companies they lend to...

NEW YORK - U.S. banks have found a way to continue betting their own money on some investments, despite a new law's restrictions on proprietary tradi...

The Group of 20 summit for heads of government this weekend will apparently "hail bank reform," particularly as manifest in the Basel III process that...

Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, criticized the recent Basel III requirements, which increase the minimum amount of capital that banks mu...

Amazingly, Mr. Geithner made no reference to the Volcker Rule, either explicitly or even implicitly -- despite the centrality of this idea to the rece...

NEW YORK-- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner traveled to New York City on Monday to tell bankers and the financial industry that new financial regul...

In his testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission this week, Alan Greenspan suggested that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers would have s...