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AARP launched a new television ad campaign on Thursday urging Congress not to cut critical Medicare and Social Security benefits.

Citigroup has completed an "extensive upgrade" of its electronic trading infrastructure and now says it is providing institutional clients with continuous, 24-hour access to global markets.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services has introduced a second generation of its PRIME Elements iPad application for retirement plan advisers and consultants.

Moody's has launched a mobile-optimized version of Moodys.com that allows market participants to see Moody’s credit ratings and research on smartphones and other mobile devices.

Nearly three years since the financial crisis began, lawmakers appear consumed again with a very precrisis topic: Is overregulation driving financial institutions overseas?

HSBC Holdings PLC has stepped up its retreat from the U.S. by officially putting its upstate New York retail franchise on the block in addition to its credit card portfolio.

After months of rumors, Wells Fargo & Co. — the nation's largest originator of reverse mortgages — made it official confirming that it is leaving the sector, but will remain as a servicer.

Here's a handy, alphabetical listing of all the independent broker-dealers that participated in Financial Planning's 2011 survey along with their corporate contact information and sales rank for the year. Did your company make the cut?

New York Life Insurance Company said its individual life insurance sales rose 24% in the first quarter, helping the firm garner 12.1% of the overall market share among life insurance providers.

For the past several months, I've been working on a new conference, The Business & Wealth Management Forum in Chicago (Oct. 13-15), that will feature a "dream team" program schedule and a recently added session about using software to incorporate macroanalytic forecasts into client portfolio design using regression analysis of stock/fund/ETF performance against a variety of different economic conditions and changes.