Tag: Finance

Proposal expected Thursday would "largely eliminate the small-dollar short-term lending industry," they say. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Upcoming Obama rule a threat to payday lenders

Joseph Lawler · May 29, 2016 4:01 am

Most subsidiary companies within megabanks are four to six corporate layers below the parent company, and some are as many as 20 below. JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has more than 2,500 legal entities. (AP Photo)

Regulator: Public ‘living wills’ don’t show big banks getting simpler

Joseph Lawler · May 25, 2016 7:39 pm

Fed: Nearly half in U.S. would have trouble with emergency $400 expense

Fed: Nearly half in U.S. would have trouble with emergency $400 expense

Joseph Lawler · May 25, 2016 5:38 pm

Google is waging economic war on short-term lenders by excluding their ads from its AdSence service. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Don’t be evil … except when it suits

Eric Peters · May 25, 2016 4:02 am

Senate votes to block Obama rule on conflicts of interest in retirement advice

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2016 10:01 pm

The rule would reshape the retirement financial planning industry. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Chamber leans on senators to block Obama’s financial rule

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2016 6:06 pm

House appropriators chop $236 million from IRS budget

House appropriators chop $236 million from IRS budget

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2016 2:33 pm

The financial industry is bracing for a House Republican bill to replace President Obama's financial reform law this month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Banks see promise in GOP Dodd-Frank replacement effort

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2016 4:01 am

Sherrod Brown asked the super-group of financial regulators to describe which congressional or court developments could threaten their ability to identify and regulate non-bank financial firms. (AP Photo)

Brown presses regulators on plans for ‘shadow banks’

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2016 8:42 pm

Thomas Hoenig, the vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said in a speech in Paris that the banking industry has "begun to lobby for special treatment or exemptions" from capital rules. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg, File)

Regulator says banks lobbying against new capital rules

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2016 3:33 pm

Hillary Clinton’s banking tightrope

Joseph Lawler · May 21, 2016 4:01 am

Daniel Tarullo told a group of insurers that the Fed plans to propose regulations for insurers within the Fed's jurisdiction "in the coming weeks." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Fed to outline two-tiered approach to regulating insurance companies

Joseph Lawler · May 20, 2016 1:55 pm