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The world's largest asset manager has recognized that investing in organizations that champion environmental, social and governance issues is not an inherent good. This shows that market forces are reasserting themselves.

The cumulative evidence of research and experience shows that overdraft is a necessary and beneficial service, especially in the hands of a credit union.

Time and again, seemingly successful bank mergers have been rocked by revelations of poor anti-money-laundering compliance. Assessing the AML risk of a potential merger partner is extremely tricky.

Lawmakers have a short window of time in which they can use the Congressional Review Act to nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's misguided rule striking medical debt from credit reports.

The customer complaints received by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are not just a list of grievances. They are a vital source of information for banks and financial services firms, and must be retained.

More Americans than ever are falling victim to sophisticated financial scammers and fraudsters. A federal task force is needed to bring together the resources to effectively push back against criminals.

The Trump administration's plan to reduce the performance of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund would sacrifice the United States' most cost-efficient investment in itself.

A group of states are pursuing similar efforts to cap credit card interchange fees, endangering rewards programs that customers value and raising concerns about an illegal interstate compact.

The acting chairman of the agency had laid out an ambitious agenda for revamping regulations and encouraging innovation, but there are dangers in trying to do too much, too soon.