From Saul Goodman of "Breaking Bad" to Harold Melvoin of "The Sopranos," sleazy lawyers on the teevee are always giving criminals career advice. This ...

JPMorgan Chase's many regulatory troubles are once again hurting the bank's stock. At some point you have to ask, when do they hurt management, too? ...

The disconnect between profitability and hiring or middle-income wage growth has been embedded in our economic system for decades -- this quarterly result is a mere microcosm.

Maybe time has mellowed Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer, who built his political career as New York Attorney General more than a decade ago by crusading aga...

* Federal Deposit Insurance Corp pushes bailout alternative * Analysts say bond investors starting to price in FDIC plan ...

If you regularly insult and belittle your teacher, argue over whether to hand in homework and flunk the midterm exam, what grade do you expect to get?...

At the request of rule-breaking bankers, a top U.S. regulator has for years settled bank cases in secret, raising the bar on just how far regulators a...

Banks say transaction reordering is not simply a new way to squeeze profits from unsuspecting customers. They claim that by processing the largest transactions first, they're actually doing us a solid.

You have to hand it to the banks: No matter how bizarre or dire the crisis hitting the broader economy, they will find a way to take advantage. Tak...

After raising hopes that some defrauded homeowners may finally see justice, the agency's bungled investigation and rushed settlement only managed to twist the knife deeper. Simply put, it's a travesty and still, no one goes to jail.

We can only hope that the World Economic Forum in Davos keeps going on forever, because the thin Swiss air seems to be making bankers stay stupid thin...

After spending the last few years taking a wait-and-see approach to financial reform, several banking regulators in the U.S. and Europe kicked off 201...

When it comes to big banks, we're like overly doting parents: Four years after the financial crisis, we just can't stop babying them.

* US Justice Dept, N.Y. DA's Office announce settlement * Comes in addition to $340 mln paid to N.Y. bank regulator * HSBC settlement of sim...

* G20 group charts rise of sector blamed for aggravating crisis * Shadow banking jumps in a decade from $26 trillion in 2002 ...

If you've been listening to Neil Barofsky gripe about the Obama administration's handling of bank bailouts, you might think he's got it in for Preside...

Thing One: Too Big To Succeed: Instead of cursing the too-big-to-fail banks like we do, maybe it's time we tried to sympathize with them. We're not...