In a live interview on Bloomberg today, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols outlined three key policy priorities that ABA is looking to in 2019.

Congress should expand consumers’ abilities to benefit from health savings accounts, according to a report issued today by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury.

A recent proposal by the National Credit Union Administration to raise the threshold at which credit unions must obtain appraisals for commercial real estate transactions from $250,000 to $1 million would create an unlevel playing field between banks and credit unions, ABA said in a comment letter to the NCUA today.

The banking agencies, along with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, today issued a statement encouraging banks to consider, study and -- where appropriate -- implement innovative approaches to anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance.

Banks are not basing decisions on how much to hold in reserve at the Federal Reserve Banks on a desire to earn the interest paid on excess reserves, according to a Fed survey of senior financial officers released today.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is working to “troubleshoot” issues in transitioning CFTC-regulated derivatives contracts from the London Interbank Offered Rate to the new Secured Overnight Financing Rate, CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo said today.

The National Flood Insurance Program is set to lapse on Nov. 30. Here's what bankers can do to prepare.

As financial regulators consider the treatment of high-volatility commercial real estate under the S. 2155 regulatory reform law, the American Bankers Association in a comment letter today urged the agencies to reconsider applying the proposed 150 percent weighting to loans that fall under the statutory “HVCRE ADC” definition.

The Federal Reserve and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today reopened the public comment period on the Fed’s 2011 proposal regarding funds availability under Regulation CC.

In a long-awaited rulemaking, the FDIC today voted to propose that community banks with a leverage capital ratio of at least 9 percent may be automatically considered in compliance with Basel III capital requirements and exempt from the complex Basel calculations.