Banks

The FDIC has important roles to fulfill under the Dodd-Frank Act, in preventing systemic failures of big banks. But it needs a new director to replace Sheila Bair to get its part done.

Insurance giant MetLife says the move to shrink is aimed at avoiding regulatory scrutiny for financial firms deemed "too big to fail."

One year after President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act, more than 300 new rules for the financial sector are on the way. How banks and other interests go about shaping them is fairly straightforward, at least to start: Write a letter. Get in line to talk to the rule-makers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is set to launch this week. What will be its purpose?

An expensive mortgage-backed security settlement and a balance sheet still weighed down by bad loans contributed to a $9 billion second-quarter loss for the largest bank in the country.

Julia Coronado, chief economist with the investment bank BNP Paribas, talks about the ratings agency S&P's possible downgrade of U.S. credit, and what ratings agencies mean to modern markets.

In a series of stress tests conducting in Europe, 82 out of 90 European banks were deemed strong enough to survive another financial crisis. But are the tests asking the right questions?

The second-largest U.S. bank said it earned more than $5 billion last quarter, as New York bureau chief Heidi Moore explains.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is expected to finalize a proposal today that would require big back executives to return pay if their bank fails.

The latest GOP plan to jumpstart bank lending may leave taxpayers holding the bag.