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

Breaking up the biggest banks because they are perceived as "too big to fail" is unrealistic. What is needed, however, are improvements in the transparency and the accountability of governance in these institutions.

America's biggest banks want you to believe that they get no special advantage, no subsidies, from being too big to fail. And yet people keep finding ...

When I was growing up the leaders in our community were the local politicians, the mayor, and the bankers. I can remember how my grandfather, who was ...

With the rise in technology and the changing nature of how people shop for financial products, has your local bank branch become irrelevant?

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? ...

Once upon a time, not long ago, oil companies were so despised that they had to downplay their massive profits in order to keep the angry mobs away. T...

As European bank depositors, bank creditors and bank stockholders look back nervously at what happened recently in Cyprus, there is increasing speculation about what might happen to Slovenia and even some other European countries in relation to bank restructuring.

The coolest names in banking are disappearing one by one. And two of them have been from Barclays Capital: First was Bob Diamond, the richly named ...

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...

Trust can be restored to banking, when transparency exists to show that the bank and its customers, employees and stakeholders quantifiably improve safety for all, and function holistically as exchanges for capital in all its forms.

Big banks' future legal bills just keep getting smaller all of the time. In the latest boon from the bench, JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday convinced U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff to dismiss the vast majority of claims brought against it by Dexia, slashing JPMorgan's potential liability in the case to $5.7 million from $774 million, according to JPMorgan's lawyer.

There are a couple of stories today questioning why an expected wave of mergers and acquisitions hasn't happened yet. We should be glad it hasn't.

This looks like it could finally be Bank of America's year. The No. 2 U.S. bank by assets has for the past four years finished in the top three of...

WalMart really did, this time, finally get its bank. But will it work for them as a business? Should they be in the banking business at all?

You may think that being a too-big-to-fail bank is just one long, consequence-free romp, but it does come at some cost: an enormous and growing legal ...

In these hostile times, it's heartening to see there's still one thing able to bring Republicans and Democrats together: hating on banks. The U.S. ...

Hello, average American. If you're anything like me, and why wouldn't you be, then you worry constantly about money. Fortunately for us, eFinancia...

What do bank regulations and drone attacks have in common? If you answered, "Nothing, what a stupid question," then you are obviously not famous bank ...