Opinions

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.

The Federal Trade Commission won a $29.8 million judgment against defendants behind a deceptive marketing operation known as Grant Connect.

Some of the biggest champions of the Volcker Rule have complained that the 300-page proposal implementing it is simply too long and complicated. That includes former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker himself, who first suggested the idea of a ban on banks' proprietary trading.

Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Janet Yellen said the central bank expects to release a package of rules, which had been expected in September, soon.

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?

Depending on how it rules, the high court's decision to hear a fair lending case could benefit banks facing stepped-up scrutiny from the Justice Department.

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

We assumed the story on the front of Section C of the Journal was more important than the one inside. Dead wrong.

A report by the Government Accountability Office finds that financial regulators are coordinating only in an informal, ad hoc way.

The $593 million shortfall in client money at MF Global Holdings Ltd., the broker that filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 31, appears to result from a "massive hide-and-seek ploy," Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said today.