Of the 10 biggest US banks in 1983, only two still exist as independent companies today. Did your bank survive…

Perhaps the highest-paying and most-secure jobs in banking can be found at the federal bank regulatory agencies, where average employee…

Banks have gotten bigger since the early 1990s. JPMorgan, for example, had assets of around $300 billion in 1995; it…

National student debt is climbing and is increasing at an unprecedented rate. Student loans provided by the government range from…

15% of Americans—nearly 1 in 6—are seemingly consigned to live in poverty. After the bailouts used to stimulate economic recovery,…

In 2012, credit unions passed an important milestone: collectively, these cooperatively owned, one-member-one-vote financial institutions hold more than $1 trillion…

Since the onset of banking deregulation, more than half of the local banks with assets of $1 billion or less…

Americans maintain the perception that the middle class, small business and the poor have not benefited from government policies enacted…

By using policy to manipulate the federal funds rate, the Fed can increase or decrease interest rates of other banks…

The six largest banks in the US now have assets that equal 65% of the country's GDP, which is nearly…

This allows local entrepreneurship to thrive by making it possible for small businesses to take out loans that traditional lenders…

The current cap on bank size would allow as few as ten banks to control the entire U.S. banking system.

The mismatch between the scale of banks and the needs of the real economy is hurting the recovery. Studies have…

North Dakota is the only state so far that has established a publicly owned bank. Founded in 1919, the Bank…

No bank could fully escape the the financial crisis, but some banks did much better than others. Wells Fargo and…