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Byline: Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- The door may still be open for Republicans to seek some type of return of the Glass-Steagall Act. In an interview Wednesday, Sen. John Kennedy, [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tackled a host of hot financial topics on Thursday, including saying he did not favor breaking up the big banks, committing [...]

Byline: Peter J. Wallison The contours of the 21st-century Glass-Steagall Act that both the Trump administration and many in Congress are talking about are not at all clear, but it [...]

Editor's Note: Many years before the financial crisis and the current debates over regulatory policy -- including whether to restore the line between investment and commercial banking -- members of [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- During a meeting with more than a hundred community bankers on Monday, Trump administration officials made it clear they favored a system with different rules [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- Observers are divided whether National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn's support for a modernized Glass-Steagall Act is purely opportunistic or a sincere wish to significantly [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- Despite a general lack of specificity about what exactly it would entail -- or maybe because of it -- the idea of a so-called 21st-century [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cast doubt on the Trump administration's call for a reinstatement of a Depression-era barrier between commercial and investment banking activities, [...]

Byline: Lalita Clozel WASHINGTON -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig announced a new policy proposal on Monday that would allow big banks to separate their core banking [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- President Trump deeply impressed the community bankers he met with Thursday, listening attentively to their concerns while demonstrating a willingness to pull out all the [...]

Byline: Christopher Whalen During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump called for a 21st-century Glass-Steagall Act. While that Depression-era law required the complete separation of commercial and investment banking, it [...]

Byline: Charles Hastie The impact of the global financial crisis on our collective consciousness was so significant that political rhetoric, in the U.S. and in Europe, is yet to escape [...]

WASHINGTON -- There are growing doubts that President-elect Donald Trump was ever serious about his surprise call in July to reinstate the 1930s-era Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment [...]

Byline: George Yacik Receiving Wide Coverage ... Winner and losers: Small and medium-size banks are likely to be the biggest winners in a Donald Trump administration. Big banks? Not so [...]

Byline: Saule T. Omarova Wall Street bankers are not happy, and for a good reason. First, both presidential candidates in this unpredictable campaign season openly endorsed reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall [...]

Byline: Marcus Stanley When both major parties endorsed restoring the Glass-Steagall Act in their campaign platforms last month, they reaffirmed the powerful hold that the Glass-Steagall principle of separating commercial [...]

Byline: Frank Sorrentino It's a rare occasion when both major political parties converge on a particular platform or issue -- and rarer still when said platform involves the resurrection of [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry PHILADELPHIA -- Sens. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will ensure big banks do not again threaten the financial [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry CLEVELAND -- Donald Trump's decision to embrace the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act is part of an effort to cast him as the champion of community banks, [...]

Byline: Victoria Finkle Receiving Wide Coverage ... Strange bedfellows: Somehow, this year's presidential race just got even more baffling. Republicans have included a provision to bring back the Glass-Steagall Act [...]

The Federal Reserve Board in Dec 1996 increased to 25% the percentage of their income which banks may earn from underwriting and selling securities. Effective on Mar 6, 1997, this action modified the provisions of Sec 20 of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. When banks attempt to acquire investment companies, they must offer brokers control over their business, according to analysts., It was hardly a fitting end for a law that had ruled the financial landscape for well over half a century and caused a blood feud between commercial banks and [...]

Several proposals have been made concerning product reform in the banking industry. Touted as the one most likely to clear Congress is that of Rep. Jim Leach, which basically proposes the formation of a 'financial services holding company' that could own both a bank and a securities affiliate. Other proposals have come from the Clinton administration and Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, Rep. Richard Baker and Reps. Thomas Bliley and John Dingell., The Sultan of Brunei could probably pick up an ivory-handled phone tomorrow and start assembling a holding company of banking, insurance and securities interests, if it pleased him. But it [...]

I It was only 20 years ago that John P. Evans Jr., then a 34-year-old vice president in the institutional sales department at First Union National Bank, was given an [...]

Byline: Tanaya Macheel Reviving Glass-Steagall: Elizabeth Warren wants to bring back the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that separated commercial banking from riskier financial activity and was repealed in 1999. [...]

Byline: Victoria Finkle WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced a bill reviving provisions of the Depression-era law that separated commercial banking from riskier financial activity. The 21st [...]

Byline: Brian Browdie Are U.S. banks just providers of products and services? Or are they a special class of institutions whose extraordinary privileges and central role in the economy entail [...]

Byline: Joe Adler WASHINGTON â The growing support for a reinstatement of restrictions separating commercial and investment banking has so far come from a smattering of commentators, policymakers and industry [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack WASHINGTON â Citing the $2 billion loss at JPMorgan Chase, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is calling for the enactment of a new version of the Glass-Steagall [...]

Byline: Marc Hochstein We sent New York Times columnist Joe Nocera back in time, and we want to do the same for you. In his column Saturday, Nocera looked at [...]

Byline: Andrew Kahr The Banking Act of 1933, better known as Glass-Steagall, separated banking from the securities business. This provision was repealed in 1999. The most important effect of the [...]

The banking industry got back on its feet in 2010, but the ground beneath remained shaky. On the one hand, it was a time of healing as credit metrics improved [...]

Byline: Heather Landy You could mark a loan to market, or book it at amortized cost. But either way, the loan's real value might not get fully captured. With the [...]

Byline: Edmond M. Ianni The whole fight of the great bankers is to drive us from our firm resolve to break down the artificial connection between the banking business of [...]

Byline: Barbara A. Rehm, Cheyenne Hopkins and Steven Sloan Bald Is Beautiful On March 12 Briget Polichene, a state lobbyist for Citigroup Inc., will be bald. Polichene is shaving her [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan and Cheyenne Hopkins WASHINGTON - Though administration officials are on record as opposing the resuscitation of the Glass-Steagall Act, President Obama's proposal last week to curb growth [...]

Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced a bill Wednesday to reverse the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's dismantling of the wall separating banking from the securities and insurance industries. Under [...]

Byline: Lou Grumet Today, the United States finds itself in the middle of a financial abyss, with Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Washington Mutual all high-profile casualties. How [...]

It turns out that there was a reason that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Glass-Steagall Act were put in place in response to [...]

Since November, three major reports from prominent sources - the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and the U.S. Chamber [...]

It is a company struggling to demonstrate a road map for growth. The struggle is all the more challenging because it is one of the world's largest banking companies, and [...]

It took decades for 'financial modernization' to become law in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, and it could be many more years before its promise is realized. 'What everybody expected [...]

My experience at the Treasury Department illustrates both how the Reagan management style worked in practice and why it was successful. During the 1980 campaign -- and in meetings with [...]

My experience at the Treasury Department illustrates both how the Reagan management style worked in practice and why it was successful. During the 1980 campaign and in meetings with his [...]

At the height of the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan famously said to the leader of the Soviet Union, 'Chairman Gorbachev, tear down this wall' -- referring of course to [...]

One technology investment banker recently recalled the time he called on the chief executive of a big tech company he was trying to turn into a client. The CEO, he [...]

After years of nonstop deal frenzy in financial services, investors have come to one conclusion: 'Acquisitions don't pay. Organic growth does,' says Peter Carroll, a managing director at consultant Oliver [...]

Stepping up his criticism of the inadequacy of regulatory oversight into the illegal practice of tying bank corporate credit to other business, such as equity, bond and M&A mandates, Congressman [...]

Three years after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act unshackled banks from stringent Depression-era restrictions and cleared the way for the diversified financial services supermarket, the business model is beginning to look less [...]

Politicians The House Financial Services Committee continued to lay the groundwork for hearings, expected to start this fall, into the connections among top-tier financial institutions and a slew of collapsed [...]