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Byline: Matt Scully An industry group representing the $800 billion leveraged loan market and $350 billion market for collateralized loan obligations is asking a D.C. Court of Appeals to suspend [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack A federal judge ordered retail trade groups Thursday to make changes to websites that seek to persuade merchants to oppose a proposed settlement over credit card swipe [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack More and more, banks and the largest credit card networks are becoming bystanders in the long-running legal wrangling over credit card swipe fees. Taking center stage is [...]

Byline: Paul Muolo The National Association of Independent Housing Professionals is giving up - for now - on its legal battle against the Federal Reserve Board to block the agency's [...]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Tuesday that it fined 19 broker-dealers $2.8 million for overstating their advertised trading volume to three private service providers. The federal regulator said it [...]

TheMassachusetts Bankers Association and several other trade groups and financial companies filed a class action saying negligence by TJX Cos. in its handling of card data resulted in a massive [...]

Seven financial services trade groups are asking an appellate court to block class actions by borrowers seeking potentially huge damages from mortgage banks. The groups filed an amicus brief Wednesday [...]

Journal Joust Sometimes criticism can be a good thing. Just ask the Independent Community Bankers of America, which last week was given near sole credit for blocking Wal-Mart Stores Inc. [...]

The American Bankers Association filed a brief Friday supporting Community Credit Union of Plano, Tex., in its suit against the National Credit Union Administration. The ABA's intervention means that all [...]

Illinois banks and credit unions, angry with the governor for raising examination fees last year to help balance the budget, are fighting back. Trade groups representing banks, thrifts, and credit [...]

California's attorney general and insurance commissioner have filed a brief defending the new state privacy law. Six federal agencies and three banking trade groups are appealing a June 30 decision [...]

Experts said a filing Thursday by six federal regulatory agencies in favor of preempting a key part of the California financial privacy law will bolster financial trade groups fighting the [...]

The three financial services trade groups that lost their court challenge to a new California privacy law plan to seek an injunction next week to keep state regulators from enforcing [...]

The National Home Equity Mortgage Association has made good on its threat to sue the Office of Thrift Supervision. In a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of [...]

Federal law trumps a West Virginia law that limits bank insurance sales, the American Bankers Association has told a federal appeals court. In a brief filed Friday with the U.S. [...]

For insurance agents, a lawsuit filed by their two largest trade associations this week is a test of the limits of Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the authority of the Office of the [...]

The two largest insurance agent trade groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday to reverse a Sept. 24 decision by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that [...]

The American Financial Services Association has sued Philadelphia, charging that the city exceeded its authority in April when it passed an ordinance regulating so-called predatory lending. The trade group argues [...]

WASHINGTON - A three-year court battle between America's Community Bankers and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is finally over. This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]

WASHINGTON -- A number of banking trade groups have asked the federal appeals court in Kentucky to let stand a December ruling allowing Owensboro National Bank to sell insurance. Industry [...]