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Only seven months remain until new rules from the Internal Revenue Service on cost-basis reporting take effect.

Sure, it's easier to grow quickly from a smaller base.

Great-West Life & Annuity has hired Joe Greene as chief marketing officer, a new position at the firm. Greene reports to President and Chief Executive Officer Mitchell Graye.

After a strong first four months of 2011, exchange-traded funds and mutual funds both saw cash flow out of products that invest long-term in stocks at the end of the second quarter.

John Hancock Financial Network already serves 2,000 financial advisers and independent broker-dealers who do business with 401(k) plans across the United States, to date, John Hancock's 401(k) support has been limited to access to asset managers. Further, John Hancock never branded its name on its defined contribution platform, instead allowing advisers to use their own.

Working as both a financial planner and a business consultant allows Phil Dyer, founding principal of Dyer Financial Advisory in Towson, Md., to serve his clients’ many needs.

One of Wells Fargo Advisors former brokers has won $6.83 million in an arbitration dispute after alleging he was wrongfully terminated and defamed by the firm after cooperating with a regulatory investigation.

The new route will lower trading speeds between those two cities and also allow banks, hedge funds, brokers and other financial services institutions to execute trades faster with exchanges in Zurich, Milan, New York and Chicago that are also connected to the Level 3 network.

Many consumers don't know what near-field communication is, but the services the technology enables are becoming quite popular. That puts an onus on mobile payments projects that use NFC to move beyond disputes over revenue and other issues.

After months of complaints to Congress about overzealous examiners, frustrated community bankers took the matter one step further on Friday by pressing a House panel to pass legislation that would force regulators to be more lenient.