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 Hershey Trust calls the shots at Hershey Co. and its board has long been thought to be an impediment to several potential deals over the years. But now the trust is pushing for the Pennsylvania chocolate maker to purchase Cadbury and beat out Kraft...

So institutional shareholders are upset at the bonuses Goldman Sachs Group is planning to shell out, as we read in today’s WSJ. But what about investors at other financial institutions? Where is the outrage there? The complaint of Goldman shareholders...

Goldman’s shareholder aren’t happy with its big-money culture. The Wall Street firm is set to report record profits and record compensation this year — about $717,000 per employee. Yet analysts expect its 2009 earnings per share to be 22% lower than...

Talk about a guy who is willing to deal. DirecTV Group’s John Malone says he isn’t ruling out a takeover by AT&T or Verizon Communications. Bloomberg News John Malone at July’s Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. “Our...

This is how it is supposed to work. Rather than the federal government dictating what a company should pay its employees, shareholders are having their say. The Journal’s Susanne Craig reports this morning that some of Goldman Sachs Group’s largest...