I'm left to wonder, what is the source of SIFMA's sudden cost-consciousness? Because I don't seem to recall ever having heard the association express similar alarm over the costs to investors of the $20 billion or so Wall Street manages to scrape together for bonuses each year.

The Obama administration is resisting calls for a national foreclosure moratorium amid a foreclosure fraud scandal that has already forced some of the...

Halting foreclosures across the nation would be "catastrophic" for the economy, a financial industry trade group said Monday. Tim Ryan, CEO of the Se...

I should have known it was too good to be true. A few months ago I was optimistic that regulatory reform would include an investor protection known as the "fiduciary duty" standard.

This year's award goes to SIFMA (the lobbying group for banks like Citigroup and B of A) who created a multinational "cashroots" campaign to portray its clients as "part of the solution" to the financial crisis.

The head of the country's second-biggest bank, considered by many to be "too big to fail," said Tuesday that no firm should be immune from failure. ...