BERLIN (AP) — International banking regulators agreed Sunday on global rules meant to ensure banks keep enough cash in hand to survive future market...

-- A survey finds fewer than one in four Americans trust the financial system and that confidence in large banks is eroding. The latest quarterly su...

The problem with banks being too big to fail is not necessarily their bigness, but their failure. Like a runaway train plowing through a city block, a...

Regulators are asking American banks to stop glossing over their vulnerability to the crisis in Europe. The Securities and Exchange Commission issu...

Central bankers barely averted a financial panic before Christmas by replacing hundreds of billions of dollars of deposits fleeing European banks. But...

Concerns about a global slowdown sharpened on Monday as markets cast a vote of no confidence in Europe's leaders. Economists and analysts expressed wo...

Billionaire investor George Soros says that the global financial system is on the brink of collapse. Developed countries are falling into a "defla...

WASHINGTON (Mark Felsenthal) - When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 and shattered the belief that U.S. money market funds would never "break the...

If European politicians are unable to contain their sovereign debt problems, Wall Street could be on the brink of another financial crisis, according ...

As the Greek government appears increasingly likely to default on its debt, economists are envisioning potentially dire spillovers to the United State...

Growing concerns about the weakness of economic growth around the world are increasingly dimming prospects for American financial institutions, amplif...

In the deafening cacophony of voices in Washington on the debt ceiling, it is easy to miss a potentially more significant development. There is growin...

NEW YORK (Joan Gralla) - A debt default would have a catastrophic effect on the nation's financial system and also deal a huge setback to New York...

Many people think that the government caused the economic crisis and that the government is at fault for not creating more jobs and jumpstarting a faster recovery. Think again.

There is now a new thinking on how to reform the global financial system and how to reduce the vulnerability of the system to adverse changes in macroeconomic and market conditions.

The financial system will continue to be a drag on economic growth because no one trusts it, and, for good reason. Whether or not capital requiremen...

Seems almost everyone I talk to these days is very outraged over the corruption in the financial system.

Growing up in Ohio as a young teen, I would take my savings account passbook to the bank and deposit my earnings from snow shoveling or grass mowing. ...

Senator Ted Kaufman (D, DE) is best known these days for arguing that, as part of comprehensive financial reform efforts, our biggest banks need to be...

In the grip of our Great Recession, with more job losses to come, we have yet to fix the broken financial system that is an underlying cause of this w...