Regulation

Four key senators introduced a bill Thursday that would effectively reinstate a Depression-era law that separated the investment and commercial sides of U.S. banks.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues are working to drum up support for a new bipartisan bill that would bring back a Depression-era law separating commercial and investment banks.

The industry group plans to unveil recommendations for restoring confidence in the markets at its annual conference scheduled for November.

Dodd-Frank Act measures designed to prevent a repeat of the global credit crisis will be largely complete by the end of this year, financial regulators plan to tell lawmakers at a hearing today on the 2010 law.

Investment pitches by entrepreneurs and hedge funds may get a higher public profile on television, through social media and even at sporting events following the lifting of an 80-year-old rule by U.S. securities regulators.

Dozens of lawmakers are urging House leaders to reject proposals to eliminate or cap the exclusion for tax-exempt bonds.

Massachusetts sent subpoenas to 15 brokerages including units of Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. as it investigates alternative- investment sales to seniors.

A FINRA panel ruled Wells Fargo’s lack of supervision allowed a third party to syphon funds from a client account.

The uniform fiduciary standard has become a holy grail of sorts for the financial advisor industry, but it's not quite that simple.

FINRA has delayed consideration of a highly contentious proposed rule on recruitment compensation disclosure.