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The idea of regulatory independence has been central to banking policy for decades but has also been declining steadily for years. The Trump administration’s assertions of…

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency this week issued a notice announcing it will comply with a recent executive order aimed at curbing overcriminalization…

Audit Envelope Are You Prepared on white paper an yellow envelope holding by human handsgetty The Trump administration and congressional Republicans seem intent on peeling back…

Audit Envelope Are You Prepared on white paper an yellow envelope holding by human handsgetty The Trump administration and congressional Republicans seem intent on peeling back…

Trump’s bank regulatory team is advancing all types of wish-list reforms, some more radical than others. When, not if, the political winds change, banks should be…

U.S. banks are sorted into different regulatory regimes based on asset-size thresholds determined in another era. Those classifications need to be recalibrated and indexed to inflation,…

Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr.Al Drago/Bloomberg The Federal Reserve’s former top regulator welcomes the Trump administration’s efforts to reform bank oversight — as long as the…

A White House order curtailing the independence of banking agencies will make it harder for regulators to impose new requirements while making bank oversight practices more…

Modernization of the bank regulatory system is essential, but it is a task that requires precision and thoughtful application of some basic principles, writes Gene Ludwig,…

The U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C. The Federal Insurance Office (FIO), a regulatory unit of the U.S. Treasury, asked NAIC to call for property market…