March was the third month in a row that retail investors were net buyers of individual municipal bonds, and it also was the fifth consecutive month that mom-and-pop investors sold more shares of muni mutual funds than they purchased, according to the March transparency report published by BondDesk Group LLC.

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Integra Bank Corp. of Evansville, Ind., said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its wealth management arm to Old National Bancorp.

Freddie Mac exchanged existing bonds from its portfolio for mirror certificates for the first time, completing a key test that is central to the creation of a uniform mortgage-backed security.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is planning on finalizing its proposed capital requirements for the government-sponsored enterprises this summer, the agency's acting director said Wednesday.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, by allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to split the CEO and president positions, let the companies dodge a congressionally mandated cap on executive salaries, the regulator's inspector general said.

There are numerous groups that would love for financial institutions to embrace their causes. But executives need to think through the potential consequences of becoming politically active.

Fees on overdrawn accounts have become so important to some banks' bottom lines that the industry can't be trusted to police itself.

An alternative metric might have led the Federal Reserve to take earlier action against rising prices.