Regulation

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.

State regulators closed the $62.4 million-asset Community Bank of Rockmart in Georgia on Thursday, the 88th failure this year.