BOSTON -- The spate of post-financial crisis rules intended to end the perception that the largest financial institutions are “too big to fail” ma...

Quartz: Senate staff are reviewing a draft of banking legislation that would raise equity funding requirements for financial institutions, pull the...

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

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...

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...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries will consider a proposal this week for an absolute cap on the total bonus paid to bankers, EU officials ...

To hear banks tell it, new regulations designed to keep them from wrecking the global economy again are themselves going to wreck the global economy. ...

In response to the global crisis, policymakers around the world are instituting the broadest reform of financial regulation since the Great Depression.

* Basel III calls for 7 pct ratio for top-level capital * Each country finalizing their version of global pact * Fed pro...

WASHINGTON — Fitch Ratings said Thursday that the world's 29 biggest banks together may have to raise $566 billion by the end of 2018 to meet ne...

* Big capital hole for top 103 banks if Basel III applied -BIS * Average core capital would sag to 7.1 pct vs 10.2 pct ...

Banks and financial services firms are not far away from realizing that they need to think like regulators, taking control of internal surveillance and compliance before regulators make them do it.

The simple notion that China might be part of that new fund is sending waves throughout Europe. Does Europe need the IMF and China to resolve a $500 billion problem?

At a conference in New York at the end of 2008, Obama's economic advisor, Larry Summers made a prophetic remark at an event organized by the Economist.

WASHINGTON -- Reforms instituted after the financial crisis to prevent future taxpayer-funded bailouts are bound to fail and will likely be weakened w...

Capital matters. Let me put that another way. The current fight over additional capital requirements for the banking industry, eye-glazing though it i...

The bank lobbyists have a problem. Last week, they lost a major battle on Capitol Hill, when Congress was not persuaded to suspend implementation of t...

We need look no further than the example of Lehman Brothers to understand how one financial institution's failure can threaten the global financial system and create devastating effects to economies around the world.

Back when it really mattered -- last spring, during the debate over the Dodd-Frank financial regulation -- Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, ...

LOS ANGELES -- In a recent interview, United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner laid out his view of the nature of world economic growth and the r...

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!

The U.S. market is now too heavily regulated to stay competitive on a global stage as a capital market.

(Reuters) - A global crackdown on bank oversight could undermine a fragile economic recovery if governments move too fast and fail to cooperate, inter...