The nation’s top infectious-disease official received the vaccine this week because he still does rounds in the hospital several days a week.

The Biden administration is considering ways to impose bank-like regulation on the cryptocurrency companies that issue stablecoins, according to people familiar with the matter, including prodding...

The proposed program of at least $5 billion would offer grants to cities and towns that relax restrictions on new construction.

The Biden administration is considering ways to impose bank-like regulation on the cryptocurrency companies that issue stablecoins, according to people familiar with the matter, including prodding...

Efforts by the new breed of financial entities, if successful, could create more competition for traditional banks.

The move from the Financial Stability Oversight Council would likely ease or repeal Trump-era restrictions that sought to limit the regulation of nonbanks, according to people familiar with the...

Banks have spent the past week or so testing what would be a clever gambit: Paying billions of dollars they collectively owe to replenish a federal deposit insurance fund using Treasurys instead of...

Former chairman of the Reserve Trust Company writes to clear the air.

Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt honored Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in front of family, close friends and the other Supreme Court justices.

When the federal moratorium expired in August, many worried hundreds of thousands of tenants would be forced out. More than six weeks later, rental aid and state and local policies have fended off...

A recount changed little, as the evidence of ballot fraud fails to appear.

The Federal Reserve’s move, over the German lender’s money-laundering controls, comes as Deutsche Bank tries to prove to investors and regulators that it is cleaning up its act under an overhaul that...

Walt Disney faces rising pressure to postpone reopening its U.S. theme parks, with union officials and workers saying the recent jump in coronavirus cases makes it too dangerous to go back to the...

Mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to start keeping their earnings as early as this week, pausing a yearslong arrangement in which they handed nearly all of their...

Fast expansion made Coinbase the biggest U.S. exchange for digital currency. Now it faces high expenses, dwindling cash and a challenge from regulators.

Trump administration officials are finalizing a plan to put mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on a sounder financial footing, then return them to private-shareholder ownership.

A Texas judge issued three default judgments against Mr. Jones after the Infowars host failed to follow court-ordered requests for documents and information in three cases over his claims the school...

Wall Street profits jumped 82% in the first half of this year, a rare bright spot for the city and state’s pandemic-ravaged budgets.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency updates goals for the housing-finance companies in conservatorship since the financial crisis.

A regulator’s plan to recapitalize the firms is the least worst option.

A Treasury-led panel asked Congress to set up a regulatory framework to address growing risks.

Closely held company Chick-fil-A is this year poised to become the third-biggest U.S. restaurant chain by sales behind McDonald’s and Starbucks, as fast-food diners make a broader turn toward chicken.

Joe Biden is expected to tap Gary Gensler to advise on plans for Wall Street oversight in a prospective administration, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that likely would please...

The FDIC is moving to boost the way it monitors for risks at thousands of U.S. banks, potentially scrapping quarterly reports that have been a fixture of oversight for more than 150 years yet often...

The agency described the breach to U.S. lawmakers as a major incident.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency tapped investment bank Houlihan Lokey as a first step in returning the mortgage companies to private ownership after their $190 billion government bailout.

Commissioners voted to approve requirements that companies claw back incentive pay from executives if errors are identified in past financial statements.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Washington charm offensive revolved around a small financial regulator and a group of senators with whom the purported crypto billionaire found common cause in a bid for light-t...

Republic First is unaffiliated with the troubled lender, First Republic, which recently received a $30B lifeline.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is under growing pressure from industry officials and members of Congress to ease strains on mortgage companies as millions of borrowers skip their monthly payments.

The combination of war and inflation could have unpredictable consequences, he said in his annual letter.

FHFA, Fannie and Freddie will now turn to how the companies will be able to raise hundreds of billions of dollars needed to meet the new capital requirements.

The revamped rules follow emergency measures Sunday to shore up banking system after the failures of SVB and Signature.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will regulate cryptocurrency markets to the maximum extent possible, Chairman Gary Gensler said, as he called on Congress to grant the agency more authority and...

Congress needs to decide how much more of a spending boost the U.S. economy needs as important deadlines loom for enhanced unemployment benefits and for state governments to complete their annual...

Wells Fargo Chairman Elizabeth Duke and board member James Quigley have resigned from the board. They were among the executives scheduled to appear before the House Financial Services Committee this...

Trump administration officials are finalizing a plan to put mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on a sounder financial footing, then return them to private-shareholder ownership.

The changes would draw upon the administrative authority of government regulators such as the Federal Housing Finance Agency as Congress weighs broader policy changes tied to the debate over revamp...

The central bank issued numerous warnings to SVB, suggesting the bank’s problems were on the radar of its primary federal regulator.

Some homeowners don’t know they qualify for a coronavirus-relief program that allows them to delay home-loan payments, potentially leaving them vulnerable to foreclosure and eviction.

The newly installed overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Mark Calabria, wants to privatize the bailed-out but now-profitable mortgage-finance companies—and boost competition.

The job cuts mark the second round of layoffs for the online brokerage, which exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic.

President Biden plans to tap Richard Revesz, a New York University law professor who specializes in environmental policy and law, to lead OIRA, a powerful office that assesses rules issued by...

The Trump administration is close to releasing a blueprint for overhauling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. To help readers know what to expect, we answer some basic questions about the two housing-fina...

U.S. banks are poised for a rebound in unrealized losses on their bond and loan portfolios, after a surge in market interest rates.

Given the narrow escape the banking system just had, we need a credible, independent evaluation of the current strengths and deficiencies of the current Fed’s system of oversight and how it can be …

Cryptocurrency investors are learning that there is no government safety net to protect them when their funds seemingly disappear with a trading and lending platform that has failed.