The latest proposal underscores a fierce fight in Congress over ways to pay for Biden's slimmer social-spending agenda.

U.S. Rep. John Larson’s legislation would increase benefits for the first time in 50 years, but it’s one of the two competing approaches attracting support.

The move is part of the bank's effort to close the racial wealth gap in the United States.

Whether it’s ultimately done by executive order or other means, the White House aims to take a unified approach to digital assets.

The U.S. may join Canada and Europe, which have already approved similar products.

Rohit Chopra, a liberal consumer watchdog, was approved as the agency’s director nine months after the Biden administration first announced him as the nominee.

The agency will consider whether to require affluent taxpayers to pay tax on transfers to trusts made under higher exemptions that expire come 2026.

Elizabeth Warren wants the Federal Reserve to break up Wells Fargo. That is sort of funny and silly in equal measures.

The effort to appeal to centrist Democrats fails to take into account gaping loopholes lawmakers must close if they plan to fund an ambitious spending proposal.

For all the central bank’s plaudits, it’s powerless to stop the wealth gap in America from growing wider.

New York legislators are set to reconsider a previously stalled fiduciary bill.

Independent Neal Simon was overwhelmed by a popular Democratic incumbent.

An ideologically driven political climate complicates the evolution of global interoperable mobile-driven commerce.

The midterm elections virtually eliminate the chance that progress will be made on financial services legislation.

The presumptive chair of the House Financial Services Committee will likely take the panel in a sharply new direction and have a new bully pulpit to criticize the Trump administration.

The focus since the 2016 election on easing rules, tax cuts and expanding access to credit is about to be turned on its head.

Several Senate, House and gubernatorial battles are of interest to financial firms. Here is a spotlight on specific contests, with updates as they become available.

The securities and investment industries have switched parties when it comes to spending ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections.

Professional development and service to the community are major benefits of breaking into politics, current and former candidates say.

Gun safety proposals and the Affordable Care Act can be polarizing topics, but this advisor tweets about them anyway — to much success.