Regulation

A House subcommittee hearing is scheduled for Wednesday that will focus on how the Dodd-Frank Act is affecting community banks and small business.

Nearly seven months after passing a bill that included a measure to limit interchange fees on debit cards, lawmakers were expressing buyer's remorse.

Our legal expert answers your questions about clients who brag about their other accounts.

A step in the right direction - or just a cost increase?

The director of the MIT AgeLab discusses the new era for dealing with the Baby boomer set.

Lincoln Financial Group says it took swift action to safeguard private consumer information and beef up its security policies, after it discovered vulnerabilities in a Web-based system that stored consumer account records for two of its business units.

In an effort to prevent a recurrence of past abuses by broker's brokers, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has issued a new draft rule that details what they must do to comply with pricing, fair-dealing, and transaction rules.

It seems we have reached the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of regulatory efficiency. If the SEC is spending weeks on trivial issues and completely missing Bernie Madoff then it is clear that something is seriously broken.

How you assess the banking industry's health from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s latest earnings report may depend on which page you turn to.

Dodd-Frank contains a series of ambitious deadlines requiring regulators to complete 170 or so new rules by July. But it's become clear the agencies are going to miss many targets.