Housing starts fall in January

ABA announced that Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson at Blue Ridge Bank and Karen Boyer at M&T Bank have received the ABA Distinguished Service Awards for Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Fraud Management, respectively.

The OCC placed much of the blame on “inexact” reputational risk policies: “This practice infused the value judgments of stakeholders into banks’ business decisions."

The Illinois Attorney General’s Office plans to appeal a court injunction preventing the state from enforcing the Illinois Fee Prohibition Act against certain financial institutions, according to a court filing.

The ABA Office of the Chief Economist believes that the hot CPI reading in September shows no alleviation of the affordability pressures households face. This could be a headwind for loan demand, particularly for interest rate sensitive products such as...

U.S. District Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro urged bankers to be “proactive” and work closely with law enforcement to fight the growing problem of financial fraud and scams orchestrated by transnational criminal organizations.

As banking agencies consider amending the regulations that implement the Community Reinvestment Act, they should preserve the broader framework while making changes to better tailor supervision, increase regulatory thresholds and focus on lending, ABA and 45 state bankers...