WASHINGTON — Banks will have to share in the risk when they sell investments of the kind that rocked the financial system in 2008 under rules ad...

Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said Tuesday that he will hold a hearing this fall to examine whether regulator...

WASHINGTON — Keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in business will cost taxpayers billions. But getting the federal government out of the mortgage...

Credit cards do more than drain money from your wallet -- they may actually create an "implicit money transfer" from the poor to the rich, according t...

Congress just passed a sweeping overhaul of America's financial regulatory system. The financial bill cleared the Senate by a vote of 60 to 39, and ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Just over a hundred years ago, the United States led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked -- and when the power ...

WASHINGTON — The financial overhaul bill awaiting final action in the Senate includes a new regulator whose aim is to make sure mortgages, credi...

NEW YORK — Bank stocks shot higher Friday after an agreement on a financial regulation bill reassured investors that new rules won't devastate f...

HUNTSVILLE, Ontario — Fresh from a congressional win on a financial overhaul, President Barack Obama pressed world leaders on Friday to join him...

WASHINGTON — Americans aren't convinced new Wall Street rules will prevent a future financial crisis. An Associated Press-GfK Poll finds that 6...

I believe its time for the government to exert tough new control over the financial services industry. Polls show that a majority of the American people agree.

Congress will next month start the biggest regulatory overhaul of the US financial system in decades, bringing into the open a frantic lobbying effort...