Banks

Six months after the Dodd-Frank law passed, the Senate Banking Committee questions regulators about their progress in fixing the financial system.

The International Monetary Fund has recommended that Afghanistan's largest bank, Kabul Bank, be placed in receivership and sold off. The IMF hopes this move will stabilize the country's corrupt financial system.

Jeremy Hobson speaks to Richard DeKaser, economist at the Parthenon Group, about today's inflation numbers from the U.S. Labor Department.

The Bank of England will announce its outlook for U.K. growth and inflation today. Amid cost-of-living concerns, the central bank faces a tough decision: Is the economic recovery strong enough to handle an increase in interest rates in order to curb inflation? Christopher Werth has more.

In an economy where more people are temporary employees or going the freelance route, checks are the way to pay people. But depositing that check doesn't mean instant money in the bank account.

Small Illinois bank Wintrust Financial has already paid back its TARP money.

AOL is buying The Huffington Post for $315 million in a merger it hopes will move the company away from dial-up modems and towards new media and...

Federal rules would pay top earners over several years, so pay could be held back if deals eventually go bad.

Suit alleges JPMorgan bankers suspected fraud long before Madoff's arrest, raising questions about a bank's duty to sound the alarm on a client.