Big banks have helped drive some of the largest financial scandals of the modern era, yet the people who run them rarely see ...

Five years after the Great Recession began, our big banks are bigger than ever. Are they still "too big to fail?" Would undue risk-taking mean another taxpayer bailout? Also, the Pope says the ...

The bill comes 10 years to the day Bush signed his big bank bailout into law. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to break up America's largest financial institutions on Wednesday, exactly 10 years after ...

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an antitrust lawsuit accusing 10 large banks of conspiring to rig corporate bond prices at the expense of ordinary investors, after the original judge recused ...

NEW YORK (AP) — All the major banks passed the Federal Reserve’s annual “stress tests” of the financial system, the central bank said Friday, but the test conducted by the central bank was notably ...

"Too big to fail" has become an unavoidable, annoying catchphrase, but the underlying fear--that banks are so large that their collapse would spell the entire economy's doom--still haunts Washington.

Standard & Poor’s downgrade of Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse on Tuesday – citing systemic risks of the investment-banking model – makes it clear that European bank-rating methodologies are ...

Banks that got taxpayer bailouts paid back with interest, but financial authorities are warning it could happen again. Just five banks -- Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and ...