American faith in Wall Street just hit a record low, but, hey, at least it's not Washington. Twenty-one percent of Americans reported confidence in...

* 31.6 pct vote against Credit Suisse pay plan * 26.9 pct vote against Barclays executive pay * Investors angry at payou...

If you think American banks are too big to fail now, you should have seen them 200 years ago. Banks dominated the American corporate landscape in 1...

When the Dodd-Frank financial reform law became official in 2010, supporters hoped it would herald in a new era of sobriety and transparency for the f...

(BEN BERKOWITZ and TANYA AGRAWAL, Reuters) - General Electric Co jumped into the retail deposits business on Tuesday, buying the online bank fro...

TRIPOLI, Libya -- The new governor of Libya's central bank says the former regime sold about 20 percent of the country's gold reserves to cover salari...

Has Kazakhstan turned the corner from its Soviet years? Probably not politically, but the time has come to revisit this Central Asian republic's economic potential.

While Alan Greenspan has been busy denying any blame or foresight into the financial crisis, Paul Volcker has been working to dissociate the speculative risks of hedge funds from banking. But "The Volcker Rule," does not go far enough.

It's worth keeping in mind that Wall Street love affairs are notorious for their short lifespan and bitter endings.

I tend to believe that the Glass-Steagall approach, an institutional way to address the question, overlooks the importance of a market response.