Compliance

The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has extended the deadline for 401(k) plans to disclose fees and expenses to participants to 120 days after the Jan. 1, 2012 deadline. Originally, the deadline was 60 days after the effective date. As a result, plans now have until April 30, 2012 to provide the information.

Depending on which political party you talk to, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is either the most powerful federal agency ever created, or the most constrained.

Even after an embarrassing online porn scandal rocked the regulatory agency last year, a new report from SEC Inspector General David Kotz finds some staffers are still going to great lengths to access these racy sites on company time.

Since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that he will terminate the QE2 program in mid-June, what will become of the bull market that saw the S&P 500 nearly double from its 2009 lows?

New spending comes as the bruises to the banks' reputations are still healing.

Our legal expert answers your questions about paying back loans.

The chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission talks about too-big-to-fail banks and the push back to reform legislation.

New rules will make it possible for financial fraud tipsters to pocket a bounty of up to 30% of any recovery or sanctions of more than $1 million and provides new protections from employers.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued an alert to investors to look carefully into the potential risks of nonrecourse stock-based loan programs before participating in them.

Bank of America Corp. will pay $20 million and Morgan Stanley $2.35 million for improperly foreclosing on members of the military — some of whom were on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan — under a settlement with the Justice Department.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined Credit Suisse Securities (USA) $4.5 million, and Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit $3 million for misrepresenting delinquency data and inadequate supervision in connection with the issuance of residential subprime mortgage securitizations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted rules that could reward individuals who blow the whistle on illegal activity in securities markets, with bounties on successful prosecutions.To be considered for an award, the SEC’s whistleblower program requires the individual to provide "original information" that leads to the successful enforcement by the SEC of a federal court or administrative action where penalties exceed $1 million.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ramped up its efforts to detect fraud and better work with investors and firms, its management team said on a panel Wednesday.

New ABA chief Frank Keating is a delegator who relishes political networking. In other words, he's nothing like Ed Yingling, the group's former CEO, who could pretty much do ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday adopted rules that could reward individuals who blow the whistle on illegal activity in securities markets, with bounties on successful prosecutions where sanctions exceed $1 million.

The brokerage industry’s chief regulator said Tuesday that its examiners will spend more time on “open-ended thematic reviews” that can identify where controls on financial risks break down.

FINRA Chief Executive Richard Ketchum said firms need to have strong internal vigilance as the self-regulatory organization plans to step up its examination processes.

The atmosphere at the hearing reflected how polarizing a figure Warren has become, being portrayed either as a symbol of overreaching government or a defender of the consumer.

Now that Bank of America has bought itself out of a massive class action over the sorting of overdraft fees, its fellow banks need to decide if they hold an advantage that B of A did not.

The broker industry’s chief regulator said Tuesday that its examiners will spend more time on “open-ended thematic reviews” that can identify where controls on financial risks break down.