financial institutions

Now that consumer protection laws have pushed back against some of the methods banks devised to make excessive profits at your expense, the financial institutions are trying new techniques.

Here's one that at first glance seems like a benefit: Taking away your credit limit.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its credit ratings for many of the world's largest financial institutions, including the biggest banks in the U.S.

LONDON, United Kingdom — Accusing major financial institutions of malign plots to undermine currencies and topple governments — that used to be the preserve of conspiracy nuts obsessed with satanic cults or reptilian overlords.

Mobile money: Will paying for a taxi in New York with a swipe of your mobile phone become second nature - or will the dangers outweigh the benefits?

For some financial institutions and telecoms companies, the highly-anticipated launch had failed to bring the announcement they'd been hoping for - that the new phone would have NFC technology ...

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Even as protesters decrying how out of touch bankers are with everyday Americans are occupying Wall Street, home of America's banking industry, many financial institutions in states where medical marijuana is legal are refusing to do business with cannabis dispensaries.

The European Union hopes that the results of an examination of its financial institutions, to be announced Friday, will quell fears about the banks’ ability to provide loans.

Merchants triumphed over bankers in a battle for billions Wednesday as the Senate voted to let the Federal Reserve curb the fees that stores pay financial institutions when a customer swipes a debit card.

It was murkier, however, whether the nation's consumers were winners or losers.

Consumers are caught in the middle of a fight between financial institutions and merchants as the Senate approaches a showdown vote over whether to block the Federal Reserve from capping fees that stores pay banks every time a shopper swipes a debit card.

Several years after the financial crisis, no senior executives of major financial institutions have been charged, and a collective government effort has not emerged.

A settlement between federal regulators and 14 of the nation's biggest financial institutions does not mean the end of a wide-ranging probe into shoddy lending practices and wrongful foreclosures.