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The United States Court of Appeals has confirmed BancorpSouth's lack of liability in an online banking fraud case, and even granted that the bank may seek to recover attorneys' fees from the victim.

The city of Richmond, Calif., wants to team up with another municipality to implement its plan to use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages. There have been no takers to date. The likely reasons are the FHFA and the continuing threat of litigation.

As regulators again put off action on a fiduciary standard for the wealth management industry, fi360 lets advisors move forward on their own.

A UBS advisor team managing $430 million in assets has left the wirehouse to join regional broker-dealer First Kentucky Securities.

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Local Social Security workers are not necessarily trained in, nor are they able to evaluate, complicated strategies and long-term projections.

The cost of long-term disability claims rose for at least a fifth straight year as expenses tied to the aging workforce drove payments higher for insurance companies.

Regulators' evaluation of last year's "living wills" submitted by the biggest banks was touted as an important step in ending "too big to fail," but the agencies have failed to provide any feedback on previous plans just weeks before the next set are due.

Lebenthal & Co. said it will exit the municipal public finance underwriting and institutional sales business and shift those resources to its wealth management division.

Kathleen Tarr says AT&T Inc. employees looked to her as “their de facto 401(k) expert.” Visiting their homes and offices, she advised them on their retirement plans as they called up balances on computer screens.

Who are the financial planning industry's largest broker-dealers? Financial Planning has unveiled its annual list, so take a look to see where your firm ranks.

One of the three was a former registered rep with Chase Investment Services who was kicked out of the industry for stealing more than $27,000 from two elderly bank customers.

FINRA fined Merrill Lynch $8 million and ordered the firm to repay $24.4 million to retirement accounts and charities for allegedly overcharging for mutual fund fees.

Pushback by the SEC is complicating a regulatory effort to investigate whether large asset managers should be labeled "systemically risky."

The Bank of New York Mellon is planning to enter the reverse mortgage business.

Three legal characteristics of inherited IRAs lead to the Supreme Court conclusion that the funds are not "objectively set aside for the purpose of retirement."

The boom in fixed-income derivatives trading is exposing a hidden risk in debt markets around the world: the inability of investors to buy and sell bonds.

The $3.7 trillion municipal market is headed for the longest losing streak since March after localities offered the most bonds in three months.

Database platforms are providing a major assist to asset managers looking to better organize their marketing and distribution strategies.

One year after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new protections for money- market mutual funds, support is eroding for the agency’s plan to rein in the riskiest of them.