* US CFTC to examine hedging, market-making exemptions * Rule received new scrutiny since JPMorgan trading loss * Sheila...

The problem with banks being too big to fail is not necessarily their bigness, but their failure. Like a runaway train plowing through a city block, a...

President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated a prominent critic of large banks for a key banking industry regulatory post. The White House said...

Federal regulators released on Tuesday a draft of the long-anticipated Volcker rule, a regulation that will limit large banks' bets with their own mon...

In June, a director at Bank of America described the company's 2008 acquisition of Countrywide Financial -- the mortgage lender whose holdings include...

In June 2009, the administration submitted to Congress a proposal that would fundamentally reshape the financial system. It was designed to lay a stro...

WASHINGTON -- Federal bank regulators are scrutinizing more than 150 home loan-related lawsuits directed at lenders and mortgage companies, a top offi...

Sheila Bair, outgoing chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said on Friday that the American government and financial system are in danger of ...

A top bank regulator said she is "very concerned" the European banking system has the potential to become a future source of financial instability...

Under the Dodd-Frank financial regulation legislation (in Title II of that act), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is granted expanded powers ...

With her time winding down as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair has suggested the U.S. follow a British proposal that cou...

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

(Reuters) - Creditors who help authorities liquidate a troubled financial firm would be among those paid off first among unsecured creditors, accord...

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is seeking comment on a measure that may subject executives and directors to clawbacks of ...

By Ben Hallman The Center For Public Integrity As the chief undertaker of the Great Recession, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has briskly shu...

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday that regulators could now handle the collapse of a "too big to fail" bank. The next day, presenting a new r...

WASHINGTON — Federal bank regulators have proposed a new system of fees paid by U.S. banks that would shift more of the burden to bigger institution...

Congress "ducked" on financial regulation, neglecting to solve the problems that caused the financial crisis, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt said. ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is poised to sue over 50 executives from failed banks, Bloomberg News reports. The potential lawsuits would...

The era of the $35 cup of coffee has come to an end, for most. Unless a consumer chooses to opt-in for overdraft protection, their ATM and debit pu...

The sales, some including no-interest financing from the agency, are part of an FDIC effort to clean out $40 billion of loans that regulators seized f...

Bank profits soared to their highest level in two years as near-zero interest rates and lower reserves for future losses allowed U.S. banks to book an...

WASHINGTON — Regulators on Friday shut down seven banks in five states, bringing to 37 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year....