FRANKFURT, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Commercial banks' overnight deposits at the European Central Bank hit a new record high of 453 billion euros, data show...

Small businesses have always been the backbone of the economy in America. The current leaders seem to have forgotten this piece of our economic puzzle.

The death blow for Michael Dalrymple's Phoenix eco-friendly building supply company was the credit freeze that paralyzed the banking system and the na...

When Ryan Fochler couldn't get a bank loan to start his dog-walking business, Ylan Q. Mui writes, he tried a less conventional source for start-up fun...

NEW YORK — Banks know what the public wants to hear: They're lending money to the little guys. JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s new ad campaign publicizes ...

Lending by the banking industry fell by $587 billion, or 7.5 percent, in 2009, the largest annual decline since the 1940s, the Federal Deposit Insuran...

WASHINGTON — Fewer banks are erecting new hurdles for people and businesses to get loans, a fresh sign credit problems are easing. In a quarter...

Never ones to let an opportunity go unexploited, mortgage lenders are taking advantage of a market fueled by low interest rates and massive government...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The U.S. government has provided more than $1 trillion of support to financial companies in a bid to keep credit flow...

The big banks are storming Washington, determined to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But there is an even bigger change in the wind: regulating the non-banks.

If one could reduce the point of all the massive government planning and intervention and bailouts down to a single pressing need, it's this: we must ...

Consumer-lending activity has increased in numerous midsize cities in the U.S., a sign they are riding out the recession better than big cities and ru...

NEW YORK — Citigroup, under pressure to increase its lending, says it will spend $36.5 billion to issue mortgages, make credit card loans and bu...

There is a rather ridiculous line of thought going on regarding the banking industry: if you receive TARP funds then lending is supposed to increase.

It seems to me that if the seller and buyer are in agreement on all terms, then the mechanics of the closing should never delay the manifestation of the parties' desire and intent, i.e. money for deed.

A version of this entry was posted on the DMI blog. It's remarkable how the Bush Administration keeps missing the mark on the mortgage and foreclosur...

Last month, the SEC imposed a temporary rule that requires investors to borrow stock before executing a short sale in 19 major Wall Street firms such ...

Credit unions are not-for-profit, member-owned cooperatives that take deposits and lend money like banks. The mortgage problems are focused on so-call...

WASHINGTON - Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae says it swung to a second-quarter loss that was more than triple what Wall Street expected as the hou...