Joe Shearin, president and CEO of Eastern Virginia Bankshares, would be happy to hire new employees if the move helped customers or generated new business for his community bank. But bringing more ...

In recent months bank lobbyists and bank executives from SIFMA President Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon have written op-eds and delivered congressional testimony criticizing ...

Okay, this week is dragging, many folks are off anyway, locks are bumping along the bottom, so I am going to switch things up a little, and put the joke first. In honor of tomorrow, and of South ...

Cities and states have joined a chorus of critics urging federal regulators to revise or halt proposed capital requirements for large banks dubbed the Basel III endgame. In a letter filed Tuesday ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued an interim final rule with request for comments (final rule) that makes technical and conforming amendments to its regulations governing ...

In July, the Federal bank regulators finalized their rules implementing most of the Basel III capital regime, as modified to meet the requirements of Dodd-Frank. They also released the "Basel 2.5" ...

The Basel III regulatory framework, developed post-2008 financial crisis, aimed to fortify the global banking system. As discussions around the Basel end game intensify, regulators, central banks, and ...

WASHINGTON — The Financial Stability Board on Tuesday outlined progress, and in some cases weaknesses, of pledges made by countries to adopt tougher capital rules in order to strengthen the global ...

I recently “attended” an online webinar about Basel III’s proposed new liquidity requirements for banks. My goal in attending the webinar was to get a general idea of how difficult it would be for ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moody’s Analytics, a global provider of financial intelligence, announced today that it has enhanced its RiskAuthority solution to help banks prepare for the final Basel III ...