NEW YORK (AP) — Top bankers keep getting bigger paydays. The median pay for bank CEOs jumped 22 percent in 2012, according to a repor...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. banks earned more from January through March than during any quarter on record, buoyed by greater income from fees and fewer losses...

It has been a full five years since banks crashed the economy and more than a year since President Obama announced a special task force to investigate big bank crimes. Ever since, homeowners and community members have been fighting for fair and deserved relief and justice.

Let's face it. The biggest bank regulator in the U.S. is an abject failure. Worse, it's costing us oodles of money, and not just from bounced checks.

Fear of debt is woven deeply into our culture. We associate debt with profligate spending, waste, gambling and overall sinfulness. As we learned during the housing bubble, it's easy to get in over our heads. So naturally we assume that the same must be true for our country -- government debt must be bad. But is it?

The disconnect between profitability and hiring or middle-income wage growth has been embedded in our economic system for decades -- this quarterly result is a mere microcosm.

Despite negative public sentiment and the rise of the Occupy movement, the avarice on Wall Street arrogantly continues on. The big banks are now even bigger and more powerful than they were in 2008 when they were bailed out by the U.S. taxpayers.

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.

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.

Breaking up these huge banks that are too big to fail, jail, or be regulated seems to be the only option on the table right now and Senator Brown, along with Senator David Vitter, is leading the effort to do just that.

Bank of America says chief executive Brian Moynihan received a 2012 compensation package worth $7.4 million, down slightly from the prior year, accord...

24/7 Wall St.: The housing market is clearly improving. According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales have risen and dist...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is pushing banks to ignore competitors' performance when awarding bonuses, and focus squarely on their own pr...