Banking regulators seized nine related community lenders in California, Illinois, Arizona and Texas, representing the collapse of one of the nation’s largest privately held bank holding...

Associated Press Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg The government has had Wall Street compensation in its sights for some time. But for the most part it was a lot of bluster and little action. That all...

This is the second in a series of profiles of possible candidates for the chief executive job at Bank of America. The Merrill Lynch deal may have contributed to Ken Lewis’s undoing. Now could it...

As threats from the financial crisis fade, Neil Barofsky’s job has, in some ways, gotten tougher. The watchdog overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program is looking back at the short-comings...

The spectacle offered by Kraft Foods’ proposed takeover of Cadbury just might give Warren Buffett, the U.S. food giant’s largest shareholder, the opportunity for a masterstroke.

In these slow M&A times, this is just what the deal world needed, an overcaffinated merger. We’re speaking, of course, about the frantic bidding war that has been escalating almost weekly for Diedrich, a small California coffee roaster and...

Many of you were unhappy when I called former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson a “hero” for saving our economy last autumn. Well, here we go again. With Bank of America’s monster $19.3 billion capital raise – and its imminent repayment of the TARP,...

London hedge-fund manager Tony Chedraoui has set chins wagging for the second time in the past two months. Chedraoui, who previously ran Deephaven Capital Management’s European event fund, made noise when he raised more than $800 million for the...

In the Langone family, father is not like son – at least when it comes to investing. Kenneth G. Langone, of course, is a well-known name on Wall Street, one of the founding investors in Home Depot, who clashed famously with then-Attorney General...

Bank of America may not have found its next CEO, but it is moving to get the government off its back and make the search easier. The bank announced this week that it would repay the $45 billion in funds it received from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset...