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The Treasury Department has swapped the carrot for the stick for three of the largest participants in the administration's foreclosure prevention program.

Customer relationship management software can be an advisor's best friend, but experts say most users still aren't getting everything they can out of it to grow their business.

Advisors still have trust hurdles to get over, but that also opens the door for new takeaway high net worth business.

TIAA-CREF is currently selecting advisors for its own network, which will launch over the next six months and go nationwide early next year.

A software tools company and a maker of high-performance servers said they set a new record in the speed of pricing options contracts.

Although banks failed in their attempt to convince Congress to delay an interchange fee cap for debit cards, the financial services industry is not giving up, just changing venues.

Without admitting or denying the SEC’s charges, Wunderlich settled with the regulator for about $627,688 in penalties.

Even if they bite the bullet and stay on the job well past retirement age and late into their 70s, most Baby Boomers and the Gen-Xers who follow them will not have enough savings to cover their basic retirement expenses and out-of-pocket health costs.

TIAA-CREF has launched the TIAA-CREF Lifecycle 2055 Fund, a target-date fund aimed at those who are 18 to 22 years of age and destined to leave the workforce in or around 2055.

Rule changes brought on by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act are expected to produce the most change in the way trading in contracts involving interest-rate commitments.