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As European banks move to shed businesses and write off losses, their regulators might veto any steps they fear could inflict further damage.

European regulators have ordered banks to raise capital and shrink their balance sheets, leading to the sale of assets to American businesses and financial firms.

Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. pulled the plug on its proposed $39 billion T-Mobile USA takeover bid Monday after failing to convince federal regulators of antitrust concerns.

Netflix Inc. spent more money currying favor with U.S. lawmakers and regulators in the third quarter while the video subscription service's customers rebelled against a price increase.

In the whodunit of the financial crisis, the latest defense, surfacing in a fraud case filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is that federal regulators are to blame.

Facing a reaction from an angry public and heightened scrutiny from regulators, banks are turning to all sorts of fees that fly under the radar.

The debt crisis was fed by governments that borrowed too much, regulators that let banks treat the bonds as without risk and investors who viewed the bonds of all countries as solid.

Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the company's operations.

Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Georgia and one in Florida, raising to 83 the number of U.S. bank that have failed this year

Regulators on Friday closed two banks in Georgia and one each in Florida and Colorado, raising to 84 the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year.