What will happen to housing, mortgages and sovereign debt as we keep struggling with these problems, both in the United States and in Europe? What should happen? An expert panel will debate these and other issues around the current financial and economic dilemmas.

The alarm bells are now ringing for the Federal Housing Administration, with delinquencies increasing.  The immediate and pressing issue is the safety and soundness of FHA today and the risk it poses to the taxpayer.  

These amendments were proposed to reduce the regulatory burden on banks and to modernize the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's regulation to meet the dynamics of the nation's banking markets.  

This is the second in a series of conferences to explore the regulation of mutual funds. Mutual funds are only one form of collective investment vehicle regulated at the federal level. Other categories include bank common trust funds and collective investment funds, both of which are exempt from the...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced a program to permit nationally-chartered banks to have higher lending limits if they are chartered in states where higher limits are permitted.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a group of independent experts on the financial services industry, will hold its first press briefing of 2000 at AEI. Subjects for discussion will include government-sponsored enterprises, international accounting standards, financing the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, fair-value accounting, federal charters for...

A regulatory response to problems in mortgage servicing must fix problems in the industry but avoid poorly conceived actions that would crimp American families' access to mortgage financing and threaten the still-weak housing recovery and the broader economy.

The Fed's role in banking regulation, orfinancial regulation, is not well understood.