The 11th-hour deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff preserved billions of dollars in corporate tax giveaways even as it slashed take-home pay for m...

By almost any measure, 2011 was a rocky year -- high unemployment, volatile markets, rising poverty, protests in the streets. Thankfully, the banks ma...

Big banks are on track to spend a record amount lobbying lawmakers this year. The five banks that spend the most on lobbying have boosted their lo...

The 10 biggest banks in the U.S. spent almost $11 million lobbying the government on financial reform legislation and other issues during the third qu...

Yes, systemic risks exist and interconnectivity extends risk into the fabric of our lives and businesses, but how did that risk get transferred to the federal government, then to you and me?

This year's award goes to SIFMA (the lobbying group for banks like Citigroup and B of A) who created a multinational "cashroots" campaign to portray its clients as "part of the solution" to the financial crisis.

As the American Bankers Association gathers for its annual convention in Chicago amid hundreds of protesters, and sets off to kill or at least defang ...

june 25 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's largest trade group has started a campaign to counter the "populist" backlash against bankers, enlisting two form...

WASHINGTON - As he often does, President Obama took the opportunity in a bill-signing ceremony last month to remind Congress - to do what we were actu...

As the financial crisis entered one of its darkest phases in October, a handful of the nation's largest banks began holding daily telephone sessions. ...

WASHINGTON — Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their l...