Most new financial advisers are encouraged to find a niche and develop expertise in handling a certain type of client. That expertise should lead to more clients and an efficient, prosperous practice.

An arbitration panel has ruled that certain comments regarding a broker's termination from Banc of America Investment Services Inc. in 2009 be expunged from his record.

Citizens Financial Group Inc. is taking a page from Hollywood in its test of in-branch videoconferencing. But the movie-star touch isn't the high-definition video screens — it's the pens used to sign important documents.

A group of Senate Democrats have called on HUD Secretary Ben Carson to reverse his agency’s opinion that borrowers in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are ineligible for FHA loans.

There is bipartisan agreement in the Senate that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "too big to fail," but some lawmakers are skeptical that a SIFI designation is appropriate.

The president signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a White House council dedicated to examining regulatory barriers to affordable housing.

Rules being considered by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network would needlessly hinder banks seeking to do due diligence on their customers.

The 118th Congress began today by failing to select a speaker of the House on the first ballot. That doesn't bode well for anything, but especially the federal debt ceiling.

Lenders must not use new technology and increased access to credit products as a way to exploit borrowers into overextension.