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The U.S. Treasury is looking beyond the insured banking system in an effort to improve the delivery of viable credit alternatives to consumers.

Another bank finds itself facing a lawsuit over a takeover of a business customer's account.

The political jousting over the structure and leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues, but the real work of the agency and its professionals has begun. That work will ultimately determine, among other things, whether the CFPB will be a rules-based or enforcement-based agency.

There's no "social mandate from heaven to make automobiles affordable for all," says columnist Andrew Kahr. Yet subprime auto has come out of the crisis unscathed. Unlike mortgage lenders, auto financiers didn't fall prey to the assumption that prices would inexorably rise.

Judge Jonathan Lippman, regulator Benjamin Lawsky and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman are standing up to an industry intent on forgetting that the foreclosure crisis affects real people, real lives and real families.

You can be certain BofA has been happy to bid good riddance to as many low-balance, single-service households as possible. A good deal of those, to whom five bucks a month means something, have shown up at credit unions' doors.

In a capitalist economy there is one market which is more important than any other — the market for capital. What can be more vital than the efficiency of the process by which the price of capital in all its various financial forms is determined — whether long or medium-term fixed-rate loans or equity?

Thieves attempted to get cash out of an ATM by filling it with explosive gas and then detonating it. Though they caused massive damage to the machine and its surroundings, they did not get any cash.

If you’re looking for lessons on risky business and recidivism, MF Global has them in spades.

Valve Corp., the company that provides the popular PC game platform Steam, disclosed Thursday that it suffered a data breach this month.