The Federal Reserve today approved the capital plans of 33 large banks participating in the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review.

Noting the progress made over the last several years to improve the strength and resiliency of the U.S. financial system, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell today pointed to several key areas that the Fed is currently focusing on for regulatory reform.

The largest U.S. banks collectively showed that they can withstand a severe economic downturn and continued to improve their capital positions, according to the results of Dodd-Frank Act-mandated stress tests the Federal Reserve released today.

As the debate over financial regulatory reform now shifts to the Senate, 52 state associations today called on Senate leadership to support a bipartisan reg relief bill that would help create economic growth and improve the availability of credit to consumers.

In a letter to Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) last week, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that the Fed will provide banks with more details on the stress testing process in response to calls from lawmakers and others -- including ABA -- for greater transparency.

The Treasury Department tonight issued a 150-page report making dozens of recommendations for how Congress and regulatory agencies can streamline bank regulation in a way that promotes economic growth.

The House today passed the Financial Choice Act by a mostly party line vote of 233 to 186 (one Republican, Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina, voted against).

ABA and the Missouri Bankers Association have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Missouri case in which two mutual thrift depositors claim that they are entitled to a distribution of their thrift’s capital at the time the bank merged into another institution.

The Federal Reserve and the FDIC today published the answers to frequently asked questions about guidance issued last year on the resolution plans that the nation’s eight largest banks are required to submit detailing how they would be wound down in the event of bankruptcy. The FAQs address capital and liquidity requirements and forecasting, governance mechanisms, management of critical third-party ...

A group of House Republicans led by Reps. Blaine Luetkemeyer (Mo.) and Keith Rothfus (Pa.) today wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen urging her to take action to increase the transparency and efficiency of the Fed’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review process for bank holding companies with more than $50 billion in assets, including removing the qualitative assessment process for all CCAR banks.