LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays has been dragged into an international money laundering investigation after U.S. prosecutors discovered that Arthur Budov...

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.

A prominent member of the Saudi royal family is at the heart of a US criminal probe into whether Barclays made improper payments in the kingdom, with ...

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 ...

A new report on how Barclays Capital ended up in its Libor mess is the latest evidence that banks that are too big to fail are also too big to manage.

Banks, after all, are nothing but corporations. Corporations are legal constructs that citizens have the right to rebuild to properly serve society. European countries began doing that last week.

A verdict delivered earlier this month by a prominent federal judge heightens the prospect that the nation’s largest financial institutions will be ...

It's 2013, and Wall Street still doesn't seem to understand that emails and privacy typically don't mix well. Last week, the Justice Department fi...

* Beats capital goal, shares close to one year high * Q4 pretax loss 2.6 bln euros due to charges * Takes goodwill impai...

NEW YORK -- A former Barclays employee who was fired from her job after her infant son was diagnosed with cancer -- a move that caused her to lose her...

With the help of three ghosts, Scrooge finally reached redemption by learning to give to others. As events of the past two weeks have shown, modern bankers have their own ghosts to face: federal prosecutors.

ZURICH Dec 19 (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS was hit with a $1.5 billion bill and admitted to fraud on Wednesday in order to settle charges of manipulat...

By Katharina Bart and Huw Jones ZURICH/LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - UBS will admit to criminal wrongdoing by its Japanese arm, where one...

Federal prosecutors are close to securing a guilty plea from a UBS subsidiary at the center of a global investigation into interest rate manipulation,...

* All three suspects released on bail * Former Citi/UBS trader Thomas Hayes among arrested-source * Other two are former...

Being a banker can be a stressful gig, but that doesn't really give anyone the right to start tossing sheet metal at people. Olivier Desbarres, wa...

* Result eases uncertainty about Fed, regulation * Stocks could struggle early, bonds rise By Rodrigo Campos and Steven ...

In the world of high finance, instilling a culture of integrity is not an easy sell, but it is a necessary one. As we have seen over the past years, too much is at stake.

* Potentially the largest penalty imposed by FERC * Commission granted extended powers after 2005 scandal ...

* Guardian Care Homes says wrongly sold interest rate swaps * Judge rules Libor/mis-selling case must go to trial * Barc...

The enormous Libor scandal may have found the face of its victims. Annie Bell Adams, a pensioner who lost her home to foreclosure, and four other ...