Regulators are trying to catch up with the "cheetahs." That's the nickname bestowed upon high-frequency traders by Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the...

When $1.6 billion of customer money goes missing, you'd think it would be easier to punish someone for it. Not so at MF Global, the brokerage firm ...

A proposal to slash funding for a major financial regulator is being met with strong criticism. Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democr...

In the ongoing struggle to shield ordinary Americans from the risks and excesses of big banks, Congress can be counted on to stand with... the big ban...

* CFO Steenkamp said he knew little about missing funds * Trustee report shows Steenkamp closely involved * Email shows ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase had weak controls in place to contain risk in its investment division that suffered a $2 billion-plus trading loss,...

When it comes to getting to the bottom of the financial crisis, it seems everyone could use a little bit more help. A government task force known a...

* US CFTC to examine hedging, market-making exemptions * Rule received new scrutiny since JPMorgan trading loss * Sheila...

If Congress is truly serious about banking reform, it needs more than just well-intentioned laws: it also needs the right people to enforce those laws, it needs to give those people the resources they require to do their job properly, and it needs to pay them decently.

Two of the most important financial regulators in the country have a message for Congress: We need more money. At a hearing before the Senate Bank...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators and lawmakers are renewing the focus on financial regulation in the wake of a multibillion-dollar trading loss ...

Most bankers are not the unethical and blindly greedy creatures that politicians and the media make them out to be; and there is no doubt that without the productive activities of the banking sector, no other industry in our nation would be able to survive or thrive. But that does not mean there isn't a ghost in the machine.

Richard Sandor is not a household name but he should be. He is quite frankly one of the most important people in finance today given his 40 years of innovation.

Natural gas, as traded today on U.S. exchanges, is a uniquely isolated American commodity and any attempt at influencing its price, overt or otherwise, would fall under the purview of the nation's anti-trust laws and its stated prohibitions to all manner of collusion.

U.S. regulators' $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a "milestone" victory in their...

Honest consumers, both businesses and individuals, it seems are perfect rubes to be ripped off by the unscrupulous members of Wall Street.

Mark Gorton is sitting in the Zen garden on the roof of his office in downtown Manhattan, squinting into the sunlight and telling me he's not evil. ...

April 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. regulator is set to penalize JPMorgan for actions linked to the demise of investment bank Lehman Brothers at the height o...

* CFTC accuses RBC of "trading scheme of massive proportion" * RBC calls lawsuit "absurd", says CFTC reviewed trades * C...

What should have been said by our president is that this government is moving heaven and earth to convert our transportation fleet from gasoline and diesel to being powered by compressed natural gas.

WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs will pay $7 million to settle federal regulators' civil charges that its futures brokerage business failed to diligently s...

By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - Some U.S. regulators are "paralyzed" by the threat of lawsuits from Wall Street...

This surprising aside while sermonizing us with the usual exculpatory rhetoric emanating from the White House that "...what I've said about gas prices is that there is no silver bullet ..." to high, ever higher gasoline prices.