Banks, after all, are nothing but corporations. Corporations are legal constructs that citizens have the right to rebuild to properly serve society. European countries began doing that last week.

One senator is accusing Wall Street banks of setting up offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying U.S. taxes. In a statement on the Senate floor Wedne...

While bankers and high-profile economists are largely to be blamed for the present crisis, our politicians contradicting their promises for better management of the economy seek financial advices from the same bankers who caused the crisis.

* Officials sue Wells Fargo, JPMorgan * Wells Fargo says complaint overlaps previous settlement * JPMorgan says it did F...

It is a grotesque symbol of how the Wall Street banks control our government. Mr. Dimon, sir, out of respect to our waning confidence in government institutions, your resignation from the Fed Board is well past due.

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...

PORTLAND, Oregon, April 25 (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sought on Wednesday to reassure Americans that the Obama administration w...

Even on Wall Street, there's no such thing as a free lunch. But there are free fancy dinners. Most junior bankers on Wall Street are allowed a $25 ...

WASHINGTON — Citigroup Inc. and Deutsche Bank are agreeing to pay a total of $165.5 million to settle federal regulators' claims that they misle...

For years, faith, community and civil rights organizations have pushed BofA to stop mass foreclosures and help get the U.S. housing market working. Instead the bank has consistently chosen PR over substance.

The banking system is both a cause and an intrinsic part of our current economic and political crisis. Here are some suggestions for a manifesto for the Occupy Wall Street protests currently taking place.

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

When Matt Levine, a vice president at Goldman Sachs, announced in May that he was leaving his job to become a full-time writer for Dealbreaker, a sati...

NEW YORK (Lauren Tara LaCapra) - Large Wall Street banks are starting to scale back compensation on trading desks as shareholders grow increasingl...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) plans to lay off 230 employees in New York because of economic conditions, according to a state filing on Wednesday...

NEW YORK (Jonathan Stempel) - A federal appeals court handed a major defeat to Wall Street banks by ruling that an online news service did not mis...

As part of a push to prevent another financial crisis, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are incr...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation int...

SHANGHAI — For three decades, wealthy nations have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in China, helping drive one of the most remarkable econo...