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The Federal Reserve Board's yearly stress-test exercise will be broadened next year to include 11 more bank holding companies.

Governments need to consider the advantages of a good bank-bad bank restructuring while loan assets currently have determinable and probably higher values than earlier in the crisis.

Our contributors have presented their ideas on how tomorrow's banks can offer customers value and make money for the long haul. Now it's time to share yours.

The debate over the Warren-McCain bill should start by correcting some popular misunderstandings.

Politicians who blindly supported restrictive AML guidelines now proclaim disgust as a global bank severs relationships with firms that send money to Somalia. But Barclays is merely exercising understandable caution.

They may comprise the greatest fighting force in the history of armed services, but today's U.S. military find themselves to be no different than their fellow Americans when it comes to Congress and the laws governing the federal budget.

Recent research by the Société historique Alphonse-Desjardins turned up a little-known U.S. publication in which Alphonse Desjardins played a discreet but important role.

Even free-marketeers must recognize initial conditions. The markets we have today are set up to invest in government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities. To remove the guarantee without crippling damage would take decades.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council, designed under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to identify risks to the stability of the financial system, labeled Prudential Financial as a risky nonbank financial company last Thursday.

The bank isn't just a place to store your money. It's a place to store your data under lock and key, but available to all those with permission to use it.