Business Institutions

As tax season comes to a close, some last-minute Imperial Valley taxpayers rushed to the post office Tuesday to file their tax returns, and a whole other group was looking to file extensions. “There’s no rush to give them the money,”...

State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-Chula Vista, announced he has introduced three bills intended to help protect homeowners and provide transparency for investors. The chairman of the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee is pushing forward Senate...

What I want to know is why Sun Community Federal Credit Union is charging $5 at the end of the month if we don’t have a certain amount of cash in our checking account. I can understand our savings. I just don’t get it. I know it’s just...

* Gov't eases BNDES loan exposure limits to miner Vale * Extends no-limits policy to Petrobras, Eletrobras * Move comes as credit conditions abroad worsen * Vehicle, home-finance, risk-control rules tightened (Adds details on risk management measures)...

* Italy, Finland, Sweden make contingency plans for Greek exit * Banks, BMW, British Airways' parent assess exit scenario By Giuseppe Fonte and Eero Vassinen ROME/HELSINKI, May 24 (Reuters) - At least half of euro zone governments as well as banks...

ROME/HELSINKI (Reuters) - At least half of euro zone governments as well as banks and large companies are making contingency plans in case Greece decides to leave the single currency area, even though the preferred option is still for Athens to keep the...

* Aviva also in the process of exiting Malaysia and Taiwan * Held informal talks with Woori on selling S.Korea business * China and India among Aviva's core markets in Asia By Denny Thomas and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG, May 24 (Reuters) - British...

Addiction counselors tell their clients, "We can't help you until you admit you have a problem." It's time for American financial institutions to admit they have a gambling problem. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Banks: In a May 22 Op-Ed about...

Protecting the financial interests of the public is an important priority of mine and it's a responsibility I take seriously as the incoming leader of the Florida House Democratic Caucus. That's why I am troubled by recent news stories exposing the...

By Brett Wolf ST. LOUIS, May 22 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - A JPMorgan executive and former Treasury Department official is considered by industry sources to be a top candidate to replace the dismissed head of the department's anti-money laundering unit,...

LONDON — The alarm over potential bank runs in Greece and Spain this week has highlighted an often-overlooked fact: Europe's debt crisis is also, in many ways, a major banking crisis. In capitals such as Athens, Madrid and Rome, large portions of...

By Brett Wolf ST. LOUIS, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - The head of the U.S. Treasury Department bureau responsible for issuing anti-money laundering and counter-terror finance regulations has been dismissed, sources said. James Freis, who took...