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It sounded like an old school slip-and-fall scam with a modern-day financial twist. Neighborhood scouts lined up victims willing to fall in potholes or deliberately trip outside of restaurants, bodegas [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and STACY COWLEY Udean Murray, a 62-year-old retired telephone operator in Brooklyn, relies on more than a dozen credit cards to make ends meet. Her prescription medication [...]

The nation's consumer watchdog adopted a rule on Monday that would pry open the courtroom doors for millions of Americans, by prohibiting financial firms from forcing them into arbitration in [...]

The nation's consumer watchdog is unveiling a proposed rule on Thursday that would restore customers' rights to bring class-action lawsuits against financial firms, giving Americans major new protections and delivering [...]

Byline: MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Angelina Lemus was puzzled. She had no idea why every month as much as $96 was disappearing from her Citibank checking account. Months later, [...]

To many businesses, class-action lawsuits are synonymous with ambulance-chasing lawyers extracting multibillion-dollar settlements. They have been called frivolous and are faulted for swelling the legal costs of Wall Street banks [...]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created at President Obama's urging in the aftermath of the financial crisis, took its most aggressive step yet on behalf [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and JENNY ANDERSON Brady W. Dougan is stepping down as chief executive of Credit Suisse, the bank said on Tuesday, ending his tenure as one of the [...]

Brady W. Dougan is stepping down as chief executive of Credit Suisse, the bank said on Tuesday, ending his tenure as one of the longest-serving chieftains of a global banking [...]

Santander Consumer USA reached a $9.35 million settlement with the Justice Department on Wednesday over accusations that the company, an auto lender, illegally seized cars from members of the military. [...]

Byline: BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG The Justice Department is pushing some of the biggest banks on Wall Street - including, for the first time in decades, American institutions - [...]

The Justice Department is pushing some of the biggest banks on Wall Street -- including, for the first time in decades, American institutions -- to plead guilty to criminal charges [...]

It is a tempting offer: Convert that beaten-up car in the driveway into hard cash with a simple loan. But car title loans, which allow owners to borrow money against [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN This summer's huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase and a dozen other financial institutions is accelerating efforts by the federal and state authorities to push [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThis summer's huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase and a dozen other financial institutions is accelerating efforts by federal and state authorities to push banks and brokerage firms to close [...]

Byline: MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG The accusations read like a pulp thriller: Citigroup employees in Mexico are suspected of pocketing millions of dollars in kickbacks from vendors. And bodyguards [...]

Here comes Wal-Bank. After years of thwarted efforts to break into banking, Walmart is making its biggest foray yet into everyday financial services. Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, is teaming [...]

The cycle is a familiar one on Wall Street. First comes a lending boom. And then, after the abuses and excesses of a bubble, there is the government crackdown. Now, [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG The market for auto loans may be bubbling with loans to borrowers with shoddy credit, but it is not going to burst, according to a new report [...]

Byline: BEN PROTESS, JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERY The stage was set for another public shaming of a Wall Street bank. The United States Justice Department flew in a prosecutor [...]

Updated, 8:23 p.m. | The stage was set for another public shaming of a Wall Street bank. The Justice Department flew in a prosecutor from Colorado and planned for a [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS A bus bombing two decades ago - and a New Jersey father's quest for justice - inadvertently set off a chain of events that [...]

Byline: STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Inside the razor wire on Eagle Crest Way, in rural Clallam Bay, Wash., telephone calls start at $3.15. Emails out, beyond the security fence, [...]

Byline: BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Neil Barofsky was a government gadfly who made a career of needling, and at times pillorying, Wall Street and Washington over the 2008 bank [...]

Neil Barofsky was a government gadfly who made a career of needling, and at times pillorying, Wall Street and Washington over the 2008 bank bailouts. Now a partner at a [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERY As the American government reached an agreement with SunTrust Banks over questionable mortgage practices, talks to resolve Citigroup's mortgage issues grew increasingly tense and [...]

Just as the federal government reached an agreement on Tuesday with SunTrust Banks over questionable mortgage practices, the government's talks to resolve Citigroup's mortgage issues grew increasingly tense and veered [...]

Byline: BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Facing a criminal guilty plea and a multibillion-dollar penalty in the United States, the giant French bank BNP Paribas has enlisted the support of [...]

Byline: BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Credit Suisse has done what no other bank of its size and significance has done in over two decades: pleaded guilty to criminal wrongdoing. [...]

Byline: JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS On the eve of the year-end holidays, Credit Suisse's top lawyer visited Washington to plead for mercy. Romeo Cerutti, a Swiss and Italian citizen [...]

Updated, 10:12 p.m. Credit Suisse has done what no other bank of its size and significance has done in over two decades: plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing. In a sign [...]

On the eve of the year-end holidays, Credit Suisse's top lawyer visited Washington to plead for mercy. Romeo Cerutti, a Swiss and Italian citizen who once practiced law at a [...]

Byline: BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Two of the world's biggest banks, facing the threat of criminal charges, are mounting final bids for leniency. To avoid the fallout from pleading [...]

Two of the world's biggest banks, facing the threat of criminal charges, are mounting final bids for leniency. To avoid the fallout from pleading guilty -- no giant bank has [...]

Federal prosecutors are nearing criminal charges against some of the world's biggest banks, according to lawyers briefed on the matter, a development that could produce the first guilty plea from [...]

Something didn't quite seem right to Citigroup earlier this week. The banking behemoth could show that it had enough capital to ride out an economic storm, but a regulator was [...]

Byline: MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG For some top Citigroup executives, it was a kind of little black book: an informal tally of Mexican companies that they feared could imperil [...]

For some top Citigroup executives, it was a kind of little black book: an informal tally of Mexican companies that they feared could imperil the bank's ''crown jewel'' -- a [...]

Byline: MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG A headache is growing for Citigroup as a banking affiliate involved in money transfers across the Mexican border has become ensnared in a criminal [...]

Updated, 9:16 p.m. | A headache is growing for Citigroup as a banking affiliate involved in money transfers across the Mexican border has become ensnared in a criminal investigation. The [...]

Byline: SUSANNE CRAIG and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Michael L. Corbat, head of one of the biggest banks in the world, recently strolled through Marea, the Central Park South restaurant where Manhattan's [...]

Michael L. Corbat, head of one of the biggest banks in the world, recently strolled through Marea, the Central Park South restaurant where Manhattan's elite go to be seen. No [...]

Updated, 8:46 p.m. | Grappling with a tepid mortgage market and a broad slowdown in its fixed-income business, Citigroup reported disappointing third-quarter earnings growth on Tuesday. Citigroup, the nation's third-largest [...]

New York State's top prosecutor filed suit on Monday against an online lender that offers short-term loans at interest rates of more than 300 percent, the latest warning shot in [...]

8:37 p.m. | Updated Capitalizing on its emerging market business -- a welcome antidote to the lackluster United States economy -- Citigroup handily beat expectations on Monday as net income [...]