Banking regulators seized nine related community lenders in California, Illinois, Arizona and Texas, representing the collapse of one of the nation’s largest privately held bank holding...

Associated Press Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg The government has had Wall Street compensation in its sights for some time. But for the most part it was a lot of bluster and little action. That all...

This is the second in a series of profiles of possible candidates for the chief executive job at Bank of America. The Merrill Lynch deal may have contributed to Ken Lewis’s undoing. Now could it...

As threats from the financial crisis fade, Neil Barofsky’s job has, in some ways, gotten tougher. The watchdog overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program is looking back at the short-comings...

The spectacle offered by Kraft Foods’ proposed takeover of Cadbury just might give Warren Buffett, the U.S. food giant’s largest shareholder, the opportunity for a masterstroke.

The U.S. Department of Justice went out of its way yesterday to enunciate the differences between its approval of Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. and the objections of European Commission to the deal. Within hours of the EC’s...

Since the financial crisis began, there have been more than a dozen criminal investigations launched into investment banks, hedge funds and home builders. But so far prosecutors have scored very few convictions. The latest setback for prosecutors was...

Moody’s may be giving American International Group a cleaner bill of health, but keep that champagne chilled. AIG shares are up this afternoon after the rating agency said that the insurer will likely be able to repay most of the federal government’s...

Larry Fink is no aspiring Jim Cramer. But in an early-morning breakfast hosted by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, the chief executive of investment manager BlackRock Inc. presented a case for buying stocks today. Bloomberg News Larry Fink “A record...

The headlines look ominous. European anti-trust regulators are “formally” objecting to Oracle Corp’s attempt to purchase Sun Microsystems Inc. Investors are skittish too, sending Sun’s share price down 13% from the $9.50-a-share price that Oracle...