The depth and breadth of the housing crisis is forcing regulators to consider and implement quickly some ideas that only recently were unthinkable.
Outflows have continued to slow and more new cash has begun to find its way back to tax-exempt money market funds over the last week.
The U.S. Justice Department has subpoenaed several large firms and agencies as part of an investigation to determine whether Lehman misled investors before its Sept. 15 bankruptcy filing.
With just $6 billion in assets left, of what once totaled $83 billion, Reserve Management is liquidating its 18 remaining funds.
It's a dated snapshot but still fascinating: large loans ran into trouble at a breakneck pace last year, according to a report released Wednesday by federal regulators.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will convene a forum on Monday to launch the development of a second economic stimulus package.
After four days of wrangling with Wells Fargo & Co. over Wachovia Corp., Citigroup Inc. said late Thursday it broke off compromise talks with Wells.
While the rollercoaster market is terrifying to watch as it keeps hitting new lows, it helps to bear in mind that this is not the only, nor the worst, ride in history.
Gerald J. Ford made his reputation buying up damaged banks and thrifts during the S&L crisis, fixing them, and selling them for top dollar. Now, he is looking to repeat history.
The U.K. has been less coordinated in its responses to the crisis than the U.S., said former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has proposed a $150 billion Emergency Stabilization Fund to help small businesses, universities, students and municipalities cope with the credit crisis, with the money coming from the $700 billion financial bailout package.
Money market mutual funds are expected to all participate in the Treasury Department's temporary guaranty program, which will cover investors' assets in the funds as of the end of Sept. 19, analysts said.
Banking companies that do not need capital are having the easiest time raising it, and in some instances they are raking in far more than they initially requested.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed motions to remand back to state court the lawsuits he filed this summer against the three major credit rating agencies.
Reports of dropped territories, closed branches and layoffs apply to the unit's wirehouse side only, not its bank-based division.
In two months Midwest Banc Holdings Inc. in Melrose Park, Ill., has gone from a company with big growth plans to one that may not be able to survive on its own.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's ban on short selling, which it initiated Sept. 18 as an emergency order to help stabilize the tumultuous market, has finally been lifted.
Small banks are performing a balancing act these days: Maintain customer relationships, but protect shareholders' investments and not spread capital too thin. That is where nonbank asset-based lenders, factoring companies, and mezzanine financiers come in.
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