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Discover Financial Services' strategy to diversify beyond credit cards suffered a setback as the lender's deal to buy $1.1 billion in banking deposits from Allstate Corp. has fallen through.

A woman who sued a collection law firm for twice attempting to garnish her wages for a debt she did not owe was awarded $1.26 million, according to a ruling Friday by a federal jury in New Mexico.

Integra Bank in Evansville, Ind., was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, after fighting to survive for nearly two years.

Never, ever, give Twitter accounts to stockbrokers. If you give thousands of commission-based sales people access to broadcast media, someone is bound to say something stupid.

Growth rates have approached levels observed during the onset of the financial crisis in 2008.

Many commentators ignore this part of the central bank's job and think any bank that gets liquidity from the Federal Reserve is a failed bank.

WASHINGTON — Scott Polakoff, the former acting director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, has joined FinPro Inc.

Rep. Barney Frank took a moment on the House floor this week to ask why there was such opposition to making Elizabeth Warren the head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"The Daily Show" host decided to focus his attention on the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act by inviting the law to appear on his show.

In e-mail to staff, the de facto agency head praises employees and looks to the future.