Joe Adler

The Senate Banking Committee, voting along party lines, approved the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt on Thursday to become director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The Senate Tuesday finally headed toward approving Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with a cloture vote that all but assures his confirmation.

Women in Housing and Finance has elected a new board of directors for the group's 2013-2014 calendar cycle.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is taking the Federal Housing Finance Agency to task, criticizing the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for opposing short sale deals designed to keep original borrowers in their homes.

Regulatory efforts to change Community Reinvestment Act rules are far too timid, according to consumer groups.

More than a year after attorneys general in nearly every state agreed to a $25 billion deal with the five biggest servicers several officials and housing advocates are crying foul over how banks are complying.

Buyers of failed banks used to partner with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to split losses from noxious portfolios. But such deals are dwindling.

Predicting exactly what the world will look like 11 years after the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law is a stretch, but history shows that congressional updates to the regulatory structure are cyclical and occur roughly once a decade.

Buying a distressed loan isn't usually considered similar to trolling for discounted airfare.

President Obama's renomination of Richard Cordray, who has been running the bureau under a controversial recess appointment, is garnering the same GOP concerns expressed when his name was first floated.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s supervision chief for the last seven years is stepping down.

Financial institutions and their regulators have battled for years with the accounting standards entity over the proper way to move away from the pre-crisis requirement that banks set aside reserves only when a loss had already been incurred on a loan.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is maintaining significant funds for a still high number of troubled institutions and resources to implement the Dodd-Frank Act.

Regulators released new details on how they will enforce restrictions on charter swaps by troubled banks.

While banks applaud the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's goal of simplifying the tangled mass of required mortgage disclosures, the industry has found that simpler is not always better in the agency's proposal for streamlined forms.

Community banks have long been a source of loans that for a variety of reasons do not fit the parameters of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray, installed by Persident Obama in January without Senate confirmation, is expected to hold office at least until his recess appointment expires at the end of 2013, no matter the election victor.

Bank collapses in Florida and Illinois late Friday will cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $111 million.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act, banks with more than $10 billion of assets must meet annual stress-test requirements established by their primary federal regulator.

In announcing one of the biggest lawsuits to come out of the financial crisis, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made it clear that his investigators are just getting started.