The “fastest-growing loan segment” – lending to nondepository financial institutions (NDFIs) – expanded at a compounded annual rate of 21.9% from 2010 to 2024, nearly three times as fast as the next fast-growing segment, a [...]
A new “appeals board” to decide bank appeals, among other things, would be created under a proposal issued Tuesday by the national bank regulator. The proposal by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [...]
A requirement to identify and verify the beneficial owners of a legal entity customer each time the customer opens a new account has been removed for some banks and credit unions by the Treasury’s financial [...]
The federal credit union regulator is increasing its maximum award amount for grants available to low-income-designated credit unions from $7,500 to $15,000, the agency said Friday. The newly chartered and urgent needs grants come from [...]
Banking industry consolidation leading to disappearing peer groups for bank examination purposes has led to changes to uniform performance reports by the umbrella group for federal financial regulators, the agency said Friday. The Federal Financial [...]
Tips involving violations and conspiracies related to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), U.S. sanctions programs, and several other laws affecting financial system security may be entered through a new whistleblower website announced Friday by the [...]
Stress test scenarios for banks with $250 billion or more in assets were released Thursday by two federal banking regulators, with submissions due by April 5 and public release of the results required between June [...]
A former relationship banker at Regions Bank, Birmingham, Ala., is barred from any future work in federally insured depository institutions under a February consent order with the Federal Reserve Board. The Fed, in the order [...]
Credit unions that want to become “permitted payment stablecoin issuers” will get that opportunity under a rule proposed Wednesday by their federal regulator, lagging other federal supervisors. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said the [...]
Credit unions would have an easier path to convert to mutual savings banks (MSBs), and other changes, under the latest round of deregulation proposed by their federal regulator Tuesday. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), [...]