Europe has crossed the red line of the sanctity of insured deposits by making them subject to a partial confiscation.

How can companies actually focus on anything more than just next quarter's results? We're not just talking about a PR campaign or a new mission statement. We're talking about a new way of doing business. We're talking about deep change.

Science has determined that people need to know 7.5 things per day, on average, about the world of business. You can't argue with science. Lucky for y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators closed two small banks in Georgia on Friday and one each in Florida, Kansas and Illinois, bringing to 38 the number of ...

There is not a single official in the U.S. or Europe brave enough to take on the bankers and say what needs to be said: If you want to gamble, be our guest. But do so on your own time, in your own home, and on your own dime.

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. swaps regulator is set to finalize this week a critical reform that will tr...

You can parse the stories about how the bank's risk-management people loaded up on risk, or digest the accounts of how JPMorgan's financial wizards engineered mind-bendingly complex means of limiting their vulnerability to troubles in Europe. But the simplest answer is the most pertinent: It's extraordinarily complicated.

Gary Cohn's position is obviously self-interested: nothing else should be expected from the Honorable firm. He and his peers recently increased their salary from $600,000 to $2,000,000!

If the big banks that brought you the current credit crisis can already meet the new requirements, what exactly does Basel III achieve, beyond shaking down their smaller competitors?

The supporters of big banks will go down hard in November and in 2012; there are no secrets over this kind of time frame. But by then it will be too late for this cycle of financial reform.

Jane D'Arista SAFER (Economists' Committee for Stable, Accountable, Fair and Efficient Financial Reform) & Political Economy Research Institute, Unive...

Not satisfied with bringing the global economy to the brink, Goldman now appears to be devoting time and energy to cyber attacks on bank reform campaigners.