Acting Comptroller Keith Noreika Wednesday endorsed his predecessor’s plan to issue national bank charters to fintech companies. Speaking at the Exchequer Club in Washington, Noreika also said that despite a lawsuit challenging the OCC’s power to issue...

U.S. breaches are on a record pace, again, following a record-breaking 2016, according to a report from the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center and Providence, R.I.-based CyberScout (formerly IDT911). The number of U.S. data breaches tracked through June...

Navy Federal Credit Union has acquired a small credit union with two branches in Fort Meade, Md. Fort Meade Community Credit Union, which has been operated by Navy since Monday, is not federally insured and NCUA’s website does not have call reports for the...

The CFPB’s final rule governing arbitration agreements will be published in the Federal Register Wednesday, a move that may start the clock ticking for any congressional attempt to nullify the rule. And in the latest salvo in the fight between CFPB Director...

As Republicans push to overhaul Dodd-Frank, a new poll shows that voters favor strict regulation of financial institutions and the goals of the controversial CFPB. The poll was sponsored by Americans for Financial Reform and the Center for Responsible...

As the Senate publicly begins examining comprehensive tax reform, credit unions are warning the Finance Committee that retaining the income tax exemption amounts to a life and death issue. “Simply put, the tax exemption is an issue of survival for credit...