Incapital LLC's plan to buy the LaSalle broker-dealer services division from Bank of America Corp. would give the Chicago underwriter a two-thirds share of the retail corporate bond business, but more importantly perhaps, it is a chance to sell fixed-income products to individual investors just as they have started looking for these products.

Shares of Washington Mutual Inc., the embattled Seattle thrift company that lost big on bad mortgage bets last year, have rebounded some this year, but Robert Lacoursiere, an analyst at Banc of America Securities, said takeover speculation has given the stock an artificial boost.

Incapital LLC, a Boca Raton, Fla., corporate bond manager, said Monday it plans to acquire Bank of America Corp.'s LaSalle Broker Dealer Services division.

While San Francisco had the biggest improvement in affordability for prices today versus 2019, Hartford remains in a very deep freeze, First American said.

Home prices increased 0.9% year-over-year and 0.1% month-over-month in January, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller national home price index.

Stock prices jumped notably following the billionaire and legacy GSE investor's comment indicating Fannie and Freddie have been "stupidly cheap."

As CUNA and NAFCU face off in a war of words, their CEOs could learn a thing or two from the heads of the National Credit Union Administration, who work side-by-side productively, despite differing political views.

With new data breaches becoming public on an almost routine basis, it’s no surprise that our findings revealed that consumers are starting to favor safety over speed and ease of checkout, writes Joseph Daly, COO of Paysafe Payment Processing in North America.

Financial institutions engaged in virtual currency markets face a number of risks — proceeding carefully is justified.