Banks

Banks were previously able to collect $15 billion a year from swipe fees. Now, the Federal Reserve is capping that, but it doesn't necessarily mean the end of debit cards.

Richard DeKaser, economist with the Parthenon Group, explains Bank of America's $8.5 billion settlement over risky mortgage backed securities.

Bank of America will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that the lender sold bad mortgage-backed securities to investors that went bad when the housing boom went bust.

Simon Johnson, professor at MIT and a former chief economist at the IMF, says newly appointed International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will favor the interest of French banks, and that the IMF missed an opportunity to emphasize foreign markets.

Garden State officials are negotiating a temporary bank loan with JPMorgan to cover a revenue gap in the new fiscal year. But is it normal for a state to seek a loan like this?

A group of central-bank leaders announced on Saturday that the world's biggest banks will have to hold more capital on their balance sheets to protect themselves in case of another crisis.

Consumers can find relatively high checking account interest rates these days. But there's a catch -- or a couple.

So who are you rooting for: the entire sociopolitical order as we know it or nameless hacker groups? Well, pick one, because apparently war is...

Credit cards and banks know a lot about what you purchase, and they're offering that information to merchants so they can target ads tailored to you. Reporter Stacey Vanek-Smith discusses how it all works.