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Bankers are fond of the Small Business Lending Fund, but the SBLF is playing hard to get.

Credit card customers are the happiest they've been since the financial crisis, thanks in part to a government crackdown on the card industry.

Raymond James & Associates has snapped up a father and son Bank of America Merrill Lynch financial advisor team who previously oversaw $114 million in client assets.

Aside from a disappointing sales outlook from tech leader Dell, investors had little economic data to react to or run from Wednesday, resulting in a fairly eventless day of trading across the board.

Is the sale by Ameriprise Financial of its Securities America advisory services unit to Ladenburg Thalmann a harbinger of yet another wave -- or wavelet -- of consolidation in the asset management industry?

With the market and economy turbulent, fund managers are steering away from equities and toward the safe haven of cash.

Fidelity Clearing Canada has enhanced its Streetscape workstation with additional market research news and information as well as syndication data on new issue distribution and reporting.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors this week said John Ryan will succeed Neil Milner as its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

Securities America’s senior management will remain intact after the firm comes under the Ladenburg Thalmann umbrella. What will the future bring for advisors and clients?

Exchanges around the world should discourage market participants from gcreating excessive low-qualityh messages that can clog trading networks, two trade groups representing automated trading firms said this week.