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Two men are accused of stealing the identity of a dead friend – and bringing his corpse along for the ride.

Many successful banks prefer to sell primarily through branches. This includes some large ones, such as Wells Fargo, plus a great many community banks.

Global accounting firms have not been drawing lines between audit services and everything else all that strictly.

The residential mortgage market has been plagued by uncertainty as the industry waits for guidance on risk retention, new disclosure requirements, and some kind of resolution of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Children are targets of identity thieves not only because they tend to have clean credit histories, but also because it can take years for kids or their parents to discover the identity theft occurred.

The recent Dreamforce conference in San Francisco focused on the rise of the 'social enterprise.'

Here is a common scenario. A bank executive develops a new product, maybe a fee-generation concept. Properly following procedure, he consults the compliance officer, who performs a check-the-box review and signs off — but raises a "fairness" concern because the product is controversial with regulators and consumer groups.

Hackers are able to intercept the security text messages banks send to online banking customers' phones to validate them as they log in.

In her final appearance before the Senate Banking Committee, former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair confirmed that the Dodd-Frank Act would prevent bailouts along the lines we saw during the last financial crisis. This is the conventional view but, as the markets react to rumors of deteriorating economic conditions leading to the need for bailouts of Eurozone banks, and perhaps a contagion affecting U.S. banks, that confidence may be ill-placed.

Up to 40,000 credit and debit cards used with arcade machines supplied by Vacationland Vendors were affected in a breach of the company's card processing system.